Peculiarities of using the metaphor "metaself" in sports discourse of Russian, English and German languages
The article surveys data on a comparative analysis of the linguistic features of using the metaphor "metaself". The author of the article established the prevailing metaphors in sports discourse. In the context of Russian, German and English languages, specific features of the metaphor "metaself" in sports discourse are identified. The degree of prevalence of social, disease, physiological and related metaphors in German, English and Russian sports discourse is analyzed. It was concluded that the dominance of a particular type of a metaphor does not always depend on the features of the language. The main conclusion that the author highlights in the course of a comparative analysis of grammatical peculiarities of the metaphor "metaself" in sports discourse is the fact that, depending on the language, this metaphor is presented in the form of phrases or simple sentences.