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Метафоризація концепту життя в мові української поезії
Metaphorization of the concept of life in the language of Ukrainian poetry

Author(s): Larysa Viktorivna Kravets
Subject(s): Ukrainian Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Pécsi Tudományegyetem
Keywords: metaphor; model; concept; individual-author metaphor;

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the metaphor "life" in Ukrainian poetry of the 20th - early 21st century. The source of the material was the works of Ukrainian writers from mainland Ukraine and the Diaspora. Using the method of metaphorical modeling, the key models of the metaphors of "life" in the Ukrainian poetry of the analyzed period were identified and characterized, and individual author's metaphors that were based on them were analyzed. The change of metaphors is explained, the specificity of their meanings is described. It has been established that the metaphors recorded in the Ukrainian poetry of the XX - Art. XXI Art. reveal a different understanding of life by each writer, which is due to a complex of external and internal factors.

  • Issue Year: 2/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 141-149
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian
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