ON THE QUESTION OF LINGUISTIC INTERPRETATION OF A METAPHOR

Abstract

The article attempts to understand a problem of systematization of the phenomenon of metaphor and its connections between different units of language. Such studies lead to a detailed selection of the facts of metaphorical transference and the creation of semantic classifications of metaphors on this basis. But, only the selection and registration of the facts of metaphorical transference is not able to reflect the full diversity of the phenomenon of metaphor, although, from both theoretical and practical points of view, they are important and necessary in such an analysis. The basis for such an analysis is the general semantic, structural, stylistic mechanisms of correlation of metaphor concepts. In distinguishing these mechanisms, various functions performed by them can help, since tropes are stylistic means united by a common function of intensifying the assessment of the events or phenomena described. The semantic aspect in the study of metaphor represented metaphor in the form of a universal fur a universal mechanism, regardless of its semantic and logical content. The structural aspect of the study of metaphor was fixed by various constructions containing metaphors, that is, the form of metaphor expression was studied. The semantic-structural aspect in the study of metaphor is a synthesis of two directions, where the universality of the semantic principle of metaphor is recognized and on this basis the description of the structural possibilities of this phenomenon is conducted. But due to the fact that this aspect does not take into account the psychological direction of the metaphorical process, the boundaries of the linguistic description of this phenomenon are limited. The researcher conducts a detailed analysis of works related to the issues of semantic, syntactic structures of metaphor phenomena, contributing to the creation of a linguistic interpretation of the metaphor phenomenon.