Sukalenko T. Metaphoric expression of the 'ZHINKA' (WOMAN) concept in the Ukrainian language.

The thesis is devoted to a complex analysis of the system of metaphoric nominations meaning "woman" as one of methods of figurative verbal representation of the 'ZHINKA' concept in the Ukrainian linguistic culture. We also reveal mechanisms of formation of feminine-marked metaphoric meaning, semantic correlation of direct and indirect meanings, sources of the evaluative sense in a metaphor, the role of figurative-motivational components in the metaphoric nomination, archetypicality, mythology of metaphoric feminatives. The thesis pays attention to studies of mechanisms of emergence in the metaphoric feminative of gender-specific social semes at a particular sociocultural background. The principles of structuring of typical figurative paradigms with lexical-semantic groups present inside them as means of verbal personification of the 'ZHINKA' concept in the Ukrainian language are identified.