Military and sport metaphors in creating the Crimea’s image in the foreign and Russian media

Kurbanov I. A.

The article gives a comparative analysis of metaphorical models used to create the Crimea’s conceptual image in the contemporary media texts of the English and Russian languages. Special attention is paid to military and sport metaphors, which create a fundamentally opposite image of the considered sphere. The article explains the motives for using these or those models.

Keywords:cognitive linguistics, metaphorical model, source (vehicle) sphere, military metaphors, sport metaphors