METAPHORICAL REPRESENTATION OF POWER STRUCTURES IN MODERN RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN MEDIA.
The article deals with the dominant conceptual models used for the metaphorical representation of power structures in the Russian and American political media discourse, describes their structures, reveals common and national specific features, which allows to draw a conclusion about the nature of the perception of political leaders and institutions of power in two linguistic cultures.
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