Marushkevych O. Metaphoric verbalisation of the concept conflict in terms of notional sphere war (on the material of modern English song discourse)

Abstract

The article presents the analysis of the process of metaphoric actualization of the concept
CONFLICT in modern English song discourse based on the conceptual terms originated from other
spheres, WAR in particular. There have been revealed some specific features of concept verbalization
through different metaphors: conventional metaphors and novel metaphors differentiated by most
linguists. The process of an initial meaning’s transformation in the novel metaphor is illustrated
through the linguocognitive procedures of elaboration and reduction.
An attempt to analyze the role of conceptual metaphor in the modern cognitive model of learning
the surrounding world is presented in the paper. Within the framework of modern linguocognitive
researches the metaphor is viewed as a means of creation of notions that contradicts the traditional
view on a metaphor as merely a language unit.
There has also been characterized the notion of a discourse, namely English song discourse, and
its prevailing role in the modern world. Having analyzed various linguistic sources, we have
concluded that there is no single precise definition of the notion “discourse”, thus we have singled
out the one that from our point of view entirely describes the notion under investigation