Abstract
The article analyzes metaphorical constructions expressing the hint. The study is carried out on the basis of the political article headlines of contemporary prestigious French editions of “Monde diplomatique”, “Le Figaro”, “Telerama”. The hint is regarded as an indirect speech act reflecting the meaning of information implicitly. The classification of article headlines is based on the metaphors types: Anthropomorphic metaphor, Metaphor of nature, Social metaphor, Artifact and Metaphor of irreality. Each type of metaphor is considered in connection with the conceptual spheres related to it. The study showed that in the language of modern French press there is a great number of headline structures containing: Anthropomorphic with such conceptual spheres as Anatomy and physiology, Disease, Family; Metaphor of nature with such concepts as Animal world, Plant world; Social metaphor, the sources of this metaphorical expansion are such conceptual spheres as Crime, War, Theater, Game and sport; Artifact with the concepts House and Mechanism.
Highlights
The modern linguistic paradigm has obtained the name “anthropocentric” due to the fact that a man has become the most important aspect for consideration of various linguistic phenomena, a kind of "measure" of everything connected with a language
Kachalova in this article we analyze the headline structures built on the basis of metaphors selected from French newspaper political articles
The study made it possible to identify the headlines of French newspaper articles, which contain "Anthropomorphic metaphor"
Summary
The modern linguistic paradigm has obtained the name “anthropocentric” due to the fact that a man has become the most important aspect for consideration of various linguistic phenomena, a kind of "measure" of everything connected with a language. It is not by accident that in recent years within the framework of the new linguistic ontology more and more attention has been paid to the problems associated with the study of discourse considering the variety of all its manifestations, since it embodies what can be designated as "human space" most fully
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