SEMANTIC-COGNITIVE METAPHORICAL MODEL: PROPERTIES, PARAMETERS, AND CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE

Abstract

The paper deals with the metaphorical model as a semantic-cognitive construction based on the author’s conception of metaphorical modelling. The aim of the research is to characterize such a model of metaphorization, that involves the disclosure of its essence, description of properties, parameters, and construction technique.
 Semantic-cognitive metaphorical modelling is the construction of metaphorization models that reflect national stereotypes of figurative analogic and associative thinking of an ethnocultural community or individual perceptions of the world of a particular native speaker at a particular stage of historical development. A semantic-cognitive metaphorical model is a regular scheme of verbalization of notions correlated in analogic and associative terms available in the minds of native speakers. It includes the original and new ideographic domains and the semantic-cognitive motivator – this description of the metaphorical model actualizes the denotative-conceptual domains of the source and purpose of metaphorization and the integrating feature that motivates the process of metaphorical nomination. The semantic-cognitive metaphorical model is a three-component structure: the original denotative-conceptual domain (metaphor motivating) → the new denotative-conceptual domain (metaphorically motivated) | semantic-cognitive motivator (motivating feature of metaphorical nomination). The term ‘semantic-cognitive metaphorical motivator’ is introduced to denote the semantic component that connects the derivative and derived meanings and expresses the motivational relations of the original and new denotative-conceptual domains, which is a mental and semantic element that integrates different entities that are similar in some respect. It serves as a motivating feature of metaphorization as a metaphorical projection from the original conceptual domain to a new one, an indicator of metaphorical motivation. 
 The developed methodology of constructing and describing metaphorical models as semantic-cognitive structures is universal, since it can be used as an independent operational mechanism in the semantic-cognitive analysis of individual facts of metaphorization or in the corpus-based study of metaphor in a particular language (texts, discourses), as well as an obligatory stage of the semantic-cognitive study of metaphorical concepts.