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The introduction of the theory of conceptual metaphor (G. Lakoff, M. Johnson 1980) marked a new stage in metaphorology development, the distinctive feature of which is the use of the methods of cognitive science and discursive and corpus analyses. One of the top-ical issues of contemporary science is the study of metaphor in different kinds of discourse (political, media, medical, pedagogical, etc.) in different national and socio-cultural variants of the language. This research discusses functioning of metaphors ...

The article deals with the precedent name "Napoleon" which is regarded as an element of historical memory, a national cultural code. The aim of the work is the semantic-cognitive modeling of this precedent name in a comparative aspect. Analyzing different contexts containing the name "Napoleon" / "Napoléon" we apply methodologies of semantic cognitive modeling, supplemented with contextual and statistical analysis. The analysis revealed a semantic-cognitive model of the precedent name "Napoleon" / "Napoléon" funct...

Speech portraying of political figures is a popular research area of modern Russian linguistics (??????? 2007, ????????? 2012, ???????? 2016, ??????? 2012, ?????? 2014, ????? 2016, ???????? 2009, etc). Normally, the scholar’s attention is focused on the discourse of national leaders – kings, presidents, prime-ministers, etc. Meanwhile, the political figures of a lower status (for instance, governors or city mayors) may also be of great scientific interest from the perspective of their communicative behaviour and i...