MILITARY AND MORBIAL METAPHORS IN METAPHORICAL MODELING

Abstract

The relevance of the study is due to the persistent interest of linguists in the phenomenon of metaphor and metaphorical modeling in different types of discourse. The article considers the functioning of metaphor in an original and harmonious combination of literary and medical discourses. The author of the work on which the analysis is based is a well-known modern psychoanalyst, practicing doctor, who investigates scientific medical problems and projects them into his literary works. Participants of communication are doctors and patients; the communicative event is related to the process of treatment of the famous philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche; the communicative situation includes discussing medical problems, making diagnoses and treatment stages. The purpose of the research is to identify and analyze military metaphors, morbial metaphors and metaphorical modeling based on professional communication within the framework of “doctor-patient.” Research methods include cognitive analysis, semantic analysis, elements of translation analysis and continuous sampling method. The research results show that military and morbial metaphors participate in the construction of metaphorical models presented in different communicative situations. The conceptual metaphorical spheres of suffering, torment, fight against disease, fear, vulnerability of human nature, inevitability of physical and moral suffering, obsession, imminent death, despair, decline of spirit, the bitterness of self-awareness and overcoming life’s adversities are involved in the formation of metaphorical models.