Metaphor In Journalistic Essays Of V. M. Peskov

Abstract

The genre of the essay is currently undergoing a process of transformation, while the goal of linguistic description of the genre typological features through the exemplary texts becomes clear. The research material is the essays of the famous publicist V. M. Peskov, which are recognized as exemplary in the journalistic community and are the subject of study in linguistics. The article uses a categorical-textual research method allows to identify the characterological features of the genre-textotype with a high degree of objectivity. The use of metaphor, through which the category of tonality is explicated, is more a feature of the writing style. In the journalistic style, a metaphor in the genre of an essay serves not only as a reflection of subjective modality, but also affects the explication of other textual categories, in addition to the category of tonality, thereby passing into the category of cognitive metaphors. The metaphor used in the title of the essay determines its compositional and thematic structuring. Explication of the topic category is performed using the logical principle of part-whole, where the whole is a metaphor, and the part - elements of reality, allowing the reader to understand the author's idea of the world, which is reflected in the composition of the essay genre. The explication of the theme category in the essay genre may partially coincide with the categories of space and time, which increases the semantic density of the text and is a genre-forming feature of the essay, due to its brevity.