SPECIFIC FUNCTIONING OF MILITARY METAPHORS IN CINEMATOGRAPHIC TEXT (a study of Eldar Ryazanov’s fi lms)

The paper examines the functioning of military metaphors as one of the leading types of conceptualmetaphors in the texts of Eldar Ryazanov’s fi lms. In contemporary linguistics, there is an increasing focus on the studyof cognitive metaphors, which serve as a crucial tool for interpreting creolized texts, particularly cinematographic texts.However, there has been no research specifi cally exploring the manifestation of military metaphors in fi lms. This articlerepresents the fi rst attempt to identify and analyze metaphorical models that structure thematic groups of militaryvocabulary, including the following: “naming military actions and ways of warfare”, “naming outcomes of militaryactions”, “naming individuals directly and indirectly involved in military actions”, “naming types of weapons and theircomponents”, and “naming military groups and units”. The study reveals the lexico-semantic, categorical-grammatical,functional, stylistic, and linguocultural characteristics of these metaphorical models in fi lm language. It highlights thenational and cultural uniqueness of the metaphorical understanding of the vocabulary associated with the semanticdomain of “war”, thereby refl ecting a fragment of the Russian linguistic worldview through identifying key instances of using military metaphors in everyday contexts. The fi ndings can be applied to the teaching of Russian as a foreign language and can inform the development of textbooks on metaphorology and the linguistics of cinematographic texts.