Metaphor in modern linguistic: definition and classification

Abstract

The article analyzes the most well-known definitions and classifications of metaphor in philosophy, rhetoric and linguistics. The attention was paid on the aesthetics of the word, the metaphor was considered as a mean that provides the artistic language with expressiveness and emotionally expressive coloring. Separately the classification of metaphors in Ukrainian linguistics was reviewed. There were made conclusions that the metaphor is the object of philosophy, logic, psychology, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, literary studies, literary critics, the theory of art, semiotics, rhetoric, linguistic philosophy, different schools of linguistics. The question of interpretation and classifications of metaphor are debatable till now. The article does not exhaust all the trends of the specified topic, can be continued in the problems of the functioning of the metaphor in different language styles, in particular in the journalistic one.

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А. С. Овсієнко

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А. С. Овсієнко (2018). Metaphor in modern linguistic: definition and classification. Науковий вісник Міжнародного гуманітарного університету. Серія «Філологія», 32(3), 105-110. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-539480