MANIPULATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH METAPHORICAL REPRESENTATION OF RUSSIA IN THE FOREIGN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE MASS MEDIA
Koroleva Tat'yana Aleksandrovna
Khakass State University named after N. F. Katanov
Abstract. The article reveals the contents of the notion "conceptual metaphor" increasingly spreading in political discourse. The aim of the paper is to analyze the metaphorical image of Russia imposed by the western English-language mass media. As a result of this, the author substantiates the idea of speech manipulating in the regime of information war by means of the monarchical representation of Russia in the military-political conflicts of the last decade.
Key words and phrases: политический дискурс, манипуляция, концептуальная метафора, монархическая метафора, когнитивная лингвистика, political discourse, manipulation, conceptual metaphor, monarchical metaphor, cognitive linguistics
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