METAPHOR IN THE SCIENTIFIC PROSE STYLE
The article deals with the characteristic role of metaphor in the scientific style. The peculiarities of the scientific style are taken into consideration to reveal their impact on the metaphor. The notion of metaphor and its types are given to define the role of metaphor in the scientific texts. The function of metaphor is treated as the realisation of its functional types in the scientific style and the representation of the processes of metaphorisation in the language of science. The relevance of the research is associated with the growing interest to metaphor as a means of creating a language map of the world, including a scientific one, and changing the stylistic characteristics of the modern science language due to the antropocentric focus of the modern knowledge.