METAPHORICITY OF SCIENTIFIC PHILOLOGICAL DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article examines expressiveness of scientific philological discourse in the Russian and English languages by the example of metaphors. It is emphasized that the use of metaphors in the texts of scientific philological articles contributes to stimulation of the recipient’s cognitive activity. Based on the available research on the issue under study, the author emphasizes that metaphors help to create new theoretical knowledge based on existing concepts. Due to the fact that the sender influences the sensory perception, the recipient gets associations based on life experience. This has an enhanced effect on the recipient and helps to make statements more convincing, which reveals the anthropocentric character of scientific philological discourse. The quantitative analysis reveals the percentage of metaphors presented in the scientific philological texts of the Russian and English languages. The identified cases of using this trope are interpreted from the point of view of their purpose in particular contexts in the structure of a scientific philological text.