CORPUS ANALYSIS OF METAPHORS WITH THE TARGET DOMAIN “RUSSIA”(BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF MODERN AMERICAN DISCOURSE)
Keywords:
corpus linguistics, NOW corpus, methods of corpus analysis, cognitive-discursive approach, metaphor, political discourse, image of RussiaAbstract
This article presents a fragment of the study of political metaphors involved in shaping the imageof Russia in American discourse. Using corpus technologies, an array of material was analyzed in an
original way from the NOW English-language corpus (electronic versions of articles from American
newspapers and magazines (May 2013 – December 2016), dominant metaphorical models, their most frequent frames, the models’ discursive characteristics, and pragmatic potential were revealed. The significance
of the work is the use of corpus linguistics methods to study political metaphors, which greatly
enriches the set of methods for studying political metaphors, increasing the representativeness and objectivity
of the results obtained.
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