Abstract
<p>The paper deals with the problems of cognitive linguistic discourse and comparative analysis studies of metaphor as a means of representing migration in mass media. It presents the most productive metaphoric models, shaping the concept of “migration”, that function in printed and electronic media discourses of Great Britain, USA and Russia in 2016-2017. A comparative analysis of metaphorical models representing migration in British, American and Russian media discourses has shown that in media discourses on the migration of 2016-2017, regularly three high-frequency and productive metaphorical models operate: hydronymic, military and morbid. Images of these metaphorical models are united by vectors of anxiety, despair, threats to life and have negative conceptual potential.</p>
Highlights
1.1 The importance of the problemThe intensive development of information and communication technologies in recent decades has led to the formation of a fundamentally new approach to media language study
Comparative analysis of the metaphors in conjunction with the methods of cognitive-discursive and linguacultural research allowed to define the essence of peoples' relationship to the phenomenon of migration and to group them according to the procedure of metaphorical simulation, which was proposed by A.P
A comparative analysis of metaphorical models representing migration in British, American and Russian media discourses has shown that in media discourses on the migration of 2016-2017, regularly three highfrequency and productive metaphorical models operate: hydronymic, military and morbid. Images of these metaphorical models are united by vectors of anxiety, despair, threats to life and have negative conceptual potential
Summary
The intensive development of information and communication technologies in recent decades has led to the formation of a fundamentally new approach to media language study. Keen interest of Russian and foreign linguists to verbal features observed in media is easy to explain, because the media "is an integral component of the social life of the modern man, the main means of its initiation to the events of the world, and it comes as an intermediary in culture formation" (Volodina, 2008: 3). In today's society the mass media has ceased to function as a source of information; it is known as a powerful tool for shaping the consciousness and manipulating human behavior. As noted by E.S. Kubryakova and L.V. Tsurikova, the media doesn’t just have the strongest influence on us, but strong pressure (2008: 183)
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