Metaphoric Description of Urban Space in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction Discourse
The article deals with naming and describing urban objects based on spatial conceptual metaphors in contemporary Anglophone discourse. Urban space in fiction is implemented by authors with a view to his or her goals and the practices typical of his or her culture. They lead to certain connotations of spatial parameters. These connotations are based on conceptual metaphors, typical of a given culture. The active use of conceptual metaphors in describing urban objects and city space leads to the appearance of fixed expressions that make use of spatial components, while not describing the real, physical space. These fixed expressions are metaphoric and they shape the mental space of a city.