Social Conflict through Conceptual Metaphor in Media Discourse

摘要

The article deals with the problem of metaphorical modeling of social conflict in Russian media discourse. News and analytical texts of newspapers and news agencies, telling about the conflict in Greece are analyzed. The conflict components metaphorically represented in media discourse are sorted out and studied. The ways of social conflict metaphorical interpretation and shaping of its image within the framework of conceptual metaphors are described.