Polycomponent metaphors in John Fowles's novel the magus

Snitsar, V.P. (2023) Polycomponent metaphors in John Fowles's novel the magus Закарпатські філологічні студії (30). pp. 106-110. ISSN 2663-4880

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Abstract

The article focuses on the conceptual modelling and functioning of polycomponent metaphors in literary texts. The paper proposes typology of polycomponent metaphors based on their conceptual-semantic, structural, and symbolic characteristics, while revealing the functions of metaphors in actualizing narrative-semiotic codes of the text. The material under study covers the novel The Magus by J. Fowles. Employing the analysis based on the theory of conceptual integration, the method of contextual-interpretative analysis of polysemantic allusions, and the method of narrative-semiotic coding, the paper has identified the main parameters of polycomponent metaphors structured as two-component and four-component and singled out their four types. The taxonomic series includes the polysemantic allusive metaphor, the allusive metaphor with connections of metaphorical synonymy, the contaminated metaphor combining metaphorical components with various semantic links, and the symbolic-hermeneutic metaphor. The type of metaphor not included in the taxonomy is complex as it combines metaphor and hyperbole in the source domain but is single-component concerning the number of its input and target spaces. The blended spaces of polycomponent metaphors function as mechanisms of narrative-semiotic coding of the text, affecting its hermeneutic code associated with the motif of the hero’s initiation and the symbolic metaphor of metagame; the proairetic code referring to the character’s actions in the attempts to free himself from the space of the game-mystification; the symbolic code signifying the binary oppositions, such as “reality – game”, “obscurity – insight”, “freedom – prohibition”, “hopelessness – liberation”, “loss – restoration of identity”, “isolation – reunification”; the semantic code in the connotations of “despair”, “hopelessness”, and “mystery”; and the cultural code of polysemantic allusions with multi-component donor domains as input source spaces of metaphors

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: conceptual modelling; polycomponent metaphor; polysemantic allusion; conceptual integration; narrativesemiotic coding
Subjects: Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у наукометричних базах > Index Copernicus
Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Статті у журналах > Фахові (входять до переліку фахових, затверджений МОН)
Divisions: Це архівні підрозділи Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Факультет романо-германської філології > Кафедра лінгвістики та перекладу
Depositing User: Валентина Павлівна Сніцар
Date Deposited: 18 Dec 2024 12:20
Last Modified: 18 Dec 2024 12:20
URI: https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/50683

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