COGNITIVE NATURE OF METAPHOR IN THE LANGUAGE OF OLGA KOBYLYANSKA’S WORKS / КОГНІТИВНИЙ ХАРАКТЕР МЕТАФОРИ У МОВІ ТВОРІВ ОЛЬГИ КОБИЛЯНСЬКОЇ

Abstract

Cognitive nature of metaphor in the language of Olga Kobylyanska’s works. The purpose of the article is to analyze the structural and semantic features of metaphor in the Olga Kobylyanska’s artistic discourse. The relevance of the article is determined by the need of further in- depth study of Olga Kobylyanskaya idiostyle in order to form a cognitive- pragmatic conception of the writer's artistic discourse. The novelty of scientific work is due to the fact that the cognitive nature of metaphor in the language of the O. Kobylyanska’s works is studied for the first time. Research methods. In the article as the main general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis are used, as well as linguistic – descriptive, structural and comparative and historical methods. Conclusions. Olga Kobylyanska's artistic discourse is characterized by the convergence of linguistic means, in particular, her works are full of metaphors of different nature. We recorded one-word and multi-words metaphors. One-word metaphors are dominated by addresses. In multi-words metaphors the semantic load falls on one of the components of the syntactic construction. Many metaphors describe the mental state of human. Often the metaphor is complemented by comparison, inversion, oxymoron etc. In creating of metaphorical constructions the writer uses the following images: soul, heart (to convey the psycho-emotional state of the characters), bread (to denote the property status), lilies (means pure girl’s love), dirty spot (to denote difficult memories), the sun in souls (to depict joyful events). Metaphors contain a number of verbs used figuratively.

Keywords

• metaphor
• artistic discourse
• convergence of linguistic means
• one-word metaphors
• multi-words metaphors