THE AUTHOR’S METAPHOR AND ITS ROLE IN REPRESENTING THE DOMINANT CONCEPTS OF THE TEXT (on the material of John Fowles’ essay “The Tree”)

THE AUTHOR’S METAPHOR AND ITS ROLE IN REPRESENTING THE DOMINANT CONCEPTS OF THE TEXT (on the material of John Fowles’ essay “The Tree”)

Author:  Kozlova L.A.

Affiliation:  Altai State Pedagogical University

Abstract:  The object of analysis in the article is the individual, or author’s metaphor, and the subject matter is its role in representing the central concept of the text. The article is aimed at considering the cognitive basis of the individual, or author’s metaphor, its distinction from the conventional metaphor and describing its role in rendering the central concept of the text. The difference between these types of metaphors consists in the fact that conventional metaphor presents the result of habitual consciousness work and has at its basis collective experience and cognitive patterns formed on the basis of this experience and verbalized in the language, whereas the author’s metaphor presents the product of the individual artistic thinking aimed at the search of the most precise and expressive form of rendering the dominant concepts of the text. 
The linguocognitive analysis of the essay undertaken in the article gives ground to conclude that the use of the concept TREE as the input mental space for the description of literary creative activity enabled J. Fowles to discourse through the prism of metaphor on such important issues as the close ties between nature and art, the problem of freedom in art that occupy the dominant position in the author’s world view. 
The article may present interest for scholars working in the sphere of the theory of metaphor and cognitive stylistics.

Keywords:  metaphor, habitual thinking, creative thinking, conceptual integration, extended metaphor, thematic net

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Pages:  34-40