Military Metaphors in Media Discourse
The article considers the functional peculiarities of metaphoric models, referring to the war concept in modern news media discourse. While analyzing electronic versions of Russian and foreign media texts, the author studies conceptual spheres which are the target, as well as, the source of military metaphors. Consideration of this phenomenon involves two aspects of study, thus it presupposes two approaches of scientific research. The first one involves the identification of military metaphors in the representation of concepts which are related to a specific field of knowledge, where the war is treated as a source of military metaphors’ use in other media discourse. The latter one involves consideration of conceptual spheres that represent the concept of war in the media texts of military actions. The semantic center of concepts which are used to cover military conflicts is represented by the following metaphors "game", "sport, "theater"," disease", "nature", "mechanism". They constitute certain mental associations, which are caused by discursive specificity of metaphoric model functioning. Conceptualization of contemporary reality in terms of war demonstrates the dominance of aggressive scenario in national consciousness while numerous disputes are being solved in various spheres of social life.