VEGETATIVE METAPHORS IN THE DESCRIPTION OF THE MOON

VEGETATIVE METAPHORS IN THE DESCRIPTION OF THE MOON

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The File Cabinets paper deals with the description of the Moon metaphors included into the vegetative code of the Russian linguistic culture.Signs underlying the creation of such metaphors are explained from the mythology and symbolism perspective.Vegetative metaphor of the Moon can be represented as several blocks: 1.

Metaphors of fruit.2.Metaphors of ripeness.

3.Metaphors of phases Stress Management of vegetation.4.

Mythological metaphors from precedent texts (Greek apple of discord, the biblical apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil).5.Metaphors of vegetative colors.

The modern literature is used as an illustrative material.One of the sources of language material is the Russian National Corpus (www.ruscorpora.

ru) served.