METAPHORICAL REPRESENTATION OF THE "CRIMEAN REFERENDUM" IN THE NEWS-PORTALS COMMENTS
In this article, we are dealing with the metaphorical models that represent “Crimean Referendum” in Russian and English comments to the news-portals. The purpose of this research is identification of features and patterns of metaphorical representation of the “Crimean Referendum” event. The article posed and solved a number of objectives: to describe the theoretical basis for the research of metaphors of the political crises from the standpoint of cognitive linguistics; to present data about the metaphorical models that represent the “Crimean Referendum” event. We showed the correlation between the political position of authors and the metaphors they used. The analysis has shown that metaphorical model “Referendum in Crimea - Movement” is the main means of representation of this event both in Russian and English language comments. Anthropomorphic, morbial, criminal metaphors and metaphors of relationships are more frequently used in Russian comments than in English ones. Metaphors of sport and military metaphors are used in English comments for the conceptualization of the event. In the article, we show the importance of role of a political position on appeal to the metaphorical models.