LINGUISTIC PECULIARITIES OF SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL NEWS REVIEWS: METAPHOR ANALYSIS

Scientific medical news reviews represent a special type of discourse that gain characteristics of both medical and media discourse. Being written it the form of news they aim at attracting readers to a certain medical invention. Various linguistic features can be applied by the authors to achieve the stated purpose and the use of metaphors is considered to be one of the most frequent. Therefore, the article aims to study various metaphoric models of scientific medical news reviews and distinguish their functions. As a result, it was discovered that the analyzed type of discourse consists of a relatively small amount of metaphors among which the models based on the source domain war dominate. Other metaphoric models that can be met in scientific medical news reviews are represented by the such source domains as sport, nature, and everyday life.