Open AccessCognitive Metaphor in the Work of L. S. Petrushevskаya
Author(s) -
Viktoria Vyacheslavovna Radchenko,
Oksana Sizykh,
Anastasiya Egorovna Alekseeva,
Anna Sofronovna Starostina
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
educação and formação
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2448-3583
DOI - 10.25053/redufor.v5i15.3378
Subject(s) - metaphor , symbol (formal) , interpretation (philosophy) , novelty , perception , style (visual arts) , cognition , cognitive science , expression (computer science) , epistemology , space (punctuation) , psychology , sociology , linguistics , computer science , literature , art , philosophy , social psychology , neuroscience , programming language
The paper dwells on functioning of cognitive metaphor in the literary texts. The metaphor in literary text is the active creative mechanism. Many researches focused on the analysis of the development of metaphorical relations, images, concepts that evolve from myth to symbol. The metaphor in the literary text is not just a means of expression, but a way of thinking and knowing the world. The academic novelty of the paper consists in the study of the author’s perception of reality through conceptual images that expand the boundaries of the metaphorical space of the text. The study reveals the ways cognitive metaphors function in the short stories by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, also describing the author’s individual style, the manner of understanding reality, the peculiarity of author’s thought, her contribution to the development of metaphorization, and the expansion of the metaphorical space of the text. The author’s interpretation of already known symbols, images, concepts is of great importance. A substantive base that forms a metaphor in the work of Petrushevskaya is also relevant, together with the factors that influence the development of metaphorical relations, those events or phenomena that are an incentive for the development of a metaphor in the writer’s work. The paper identifies algorithms of metaphorical transformations, as well as metaphorical structure of cognitive metaphor, typical of author’s way of thinking and individual artistic style.