Metaphorical Image of Russia in Modern American Media

Student: Soldatova Anastasia

Educational Programme: Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2017

The thesis features the aspects of functioning of metaphorical expressions about Russia in the modern USA media. We claim that metaphorical image of Russia in the American press aims to create unfriendly, aggressive, dangerous picture. The theoretical grounds lie in the area of approaches, ideas, opinions and achievement of the mordent cognitive linguistics.

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