METAPHORICAL IMAGES OF RUSSIA IN THE “ESSAY OF RUSSIAN REVOLT” BY A.I. DENIKIN

Abstract

The metaphorical images of Russia in the “Essay of Russian revolt” by A.I. Denikin are under analysis in the article. This essay is at the border of politico-military and journalistic discourses, according to its subject matter and style. By using the metaphors of a broken mechanism, a destroyed building, a sick person and a dying organism the author describes the events in Russia during the revolts and revolution; evaluates the reality unfavorably, thereby influencing emotionally the reader. Russia represents the object (building, body, and machine), on which external forces (revolution, new political authority) are influencing. The metaphor fulfills the following functions: cognitive (means of world categorization), communicative (means of information transfer) and pragmatics (means of forming certain emotional state of the reader) and aesthetic (means of figurativeness).