To the Issue of Differentiation between Metaphorical and Mental Images Verbalized in Emotive Prose
 (Based on the Texts of Small Emotive Prose by Ye.I. Zamyatin)

Abstract

Nowadays achievements in metaphor studying make it possible to state that the nature of metaphor comprises mental and figurative features. Trying to fix the ideal, metaphor like any mental image may be expressed by means of natural language instruments. The mediate demonstration of the ideal nature
 makes metaphor verbalization and the one of the mental image nondescript that is aggravated by their core similarity and absence of special figures of mental images expressionand taking into consideration their all principal possibilities
 to be verbalized. The author of the article has faced the taxonomic problem of characterization of Ye.I. Zamyatin’scertain emotive prose texts according to the
 type of their imagery. The literal material of Zamyatin’semotive prose discourse analyzed in
 the article shows practical difficulty of interpreting mental images in accordance with their nature. The study has made a parametric succession of constituents
 included in metaphorical and mental images notions due to the methods of contextual analysis of the natural language text, as well as self-observation as an empiric analysis of the language material, and theoretical synthesis of
 speech experience with further schematization. The succession is applied to the analysis of Zamyatin’s texts. The research data may be used for the interpretation and analysis of any
 emotive prose text since mental images are often intentionally verbalized as an expressive means and metaphorical ones.