Li, Y SPECIFIC FUNCTIONING OF MILITARY METAPHORS IN CINEMATOGRAPHIC TEXT (a study of Eldar Ryazanov’s fi lms). Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2025;47(1):8–15. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2025.1122


Russian language. Languages of the peoples of Russia

SPECIFIC FUNCTIONING OF MILITARY METAPHORS IN CINEMATOGRAPHIC TEXT (a study of Eldar Ryazanov’s fi lms)

Li
Yan 		Jiangsu Normal University
Keywords:
military metaphor
seme
direction of metaphorical transfer
kinotext
linguistic worldview		 Summary: The paper examines the functioning of military metaphors as one of the leading types of conceptual metaphors in the texts of Eldar Ryazanov’s fi lms. In contemporary linguistics, there is an increasing focus on the study of cognitive metaphors, which serve as a crucial tool for interpreting creolized texts, particularly cinematographic texts. However, there has been no research specifi cally exploring the manifestation of military metaphors in fi lms. This article represents the fi rst attempt to identify and analyze metaphorical models that structure thematic groups of military vocabulary, including the following: “naming military actions and ways of warfare”, “naming outcomes of military actions”, “naming individuals directly and indirectly involved in military actions”, “naming types of weapons and their components”, and “naming military groups and units”. The study reveals the lexico-semantic, categorical-grammatical, functional, stylistic, and linguocultural characteristics of these metaphorical models in fi lm language. It highlights the national and cultural uniqueness of the metaphorical understanding of the vocabulary associated with the semantic domain of “war”, thereby refl ecting a fragment of the Russian linguistic worldview through identifying key instances of using military metaphors in everyday contexts. The fi ndings can be applied to the teaching of Russian as a foreign language and can inform the development of textbooks on metaphorology and the linguistics of cinematographic texts.



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