Uprising: Interpretative Subject Plot Matrix
The paper deals with interpretative model of events on the material of the concept "uprising". A cognitive matrix is an instrument of multidimensional description of dynamic phenomena in their notional, perceptive, evaluative, discursive and personal manifestation. Uprising is explained from a notional point of view as an armed mass protest against oppression and focuses on its causes, typical scenarios and types. Its perceptive images are situations of riots and fighting, its predominant metaphor is fire and its evaluative modes express different attitudes to the event from three main participant positions - oppressors, rebels and observers. Discursive manifestation of uprising is represented in memoirs, fiction and scholarly literature in history, sociology and politics. Poetic conceptualization of uprising is rich in symbols.