The Metaphorical Models of the Human Body in Contemporary British and American Culture

The analysis of this thesis focuses on the conceptualization of the human body through a metaphor in modern English-speaking culture. In the thesis, we attempted to identify the main metaphorical models of the body, which have the greatest relevance for modern English-speaking culture. The body as an object and recipient of the surrounding reality through receptors, organs and parts of the body forms a certain (individual) somatic experience. This experience is a very flexible, plastic formation, with cultural specificity, historical variation and individual variability. Accordingly, bodily experience has become a certain scale of human emotions and feelings, which became the basis for the formulation of conceptual metaphors. Since the metaphor has become the basic mechanism of knowledge of the world, attention to its study in various sciences has increased. In our work, we focus on the conceptual metaphor, which is a generalized experience of human interaction with the outside world (the world of objects, society). In the framework of this thesis, we focused on the analysis of a number of conceptual body metaphors, which in their totality demonstrate how significant the general and individual body experience in perceiving the surrounding world is. The main emphasis was placed on the concepts BODY - HOUSE, BODY - MACHINE, BODY - BIOLOGICAL ORGANISM, BODY - CONTAINER (including for emotions). Special attention was paid to the analysis of the phenomenon of visual body metaphors. As a result of the analysis, the versatility of human body experience and the fact of its universality were established as a coefficient for metaphorical concepts reflecting the specificity and individuality of the psycho-emotional perception of the environment through body receptors.