Kovalenko R. Verbalization of Concepts War/Peace in Modern English Publicistic Discourse

This thesis focuses on the structural, semantic and functional features of the diverse arsenal of English means that serve to represent concepts WAR PEACE. We identified cognitive models that underlie their semantics-evaluative components of connotative meaning. Cognitive modelling based on the matrix principle allowed to identify contexts of cognitive understanding universal phenomena of war and peace relevant for contemporary English journalistic discourse. An attempt was made to detect the interaction of oppositional concepts WAR/PEACE in the modern English journalistic discourse. We singled out a number of lexical units, characterized by ambivalence of assessment of war and peace in the modern English journalistic discourse. Depending on the context of rethinking the figurative component in the structure of the concept WAR is involved in a number of metaphorical models, such as WAR IS A GAME, WAR IS A THEATRE, WAR IS SPORTS, WAR IS HUNTING. In a figurative representation of the component the concept PEACE has a less diverse number of spheres of metaphorical expansion: PEACE IS A CONSTANT FIGHT, PEACE IS A LONG ROAD, PEACE IS A GIFT.