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METAPHORS IN THE TEXT-WORLDS OF COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING
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Within the framework of cognitive-discourse approach, the authors focus on the conceptual effects of metaphors used in commercial advertising for the sake of sales promotion. The article gives insights into the construction of pragmatically-orientated mental representations activated by metaphors as means of persuasion and entertaining the target audience. The authors chiefly draw on Text World Theory [1], [6], [7], [10], [11], [12] and Conceptual Blending Theory [5] because their heuristics can provide an adequate model of the text-driven discourse-level conceptual structures created in the minds of recipients. Text-worlds are viewed as mental representations which enable us to conceptualize and understand every piece of language we encounter [6: 2].
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