THE IDENTIFICATION AND DETERMINOLOGISATION OF THE METAPHOR IN THE OFFICIAL BUSINESS DOCUMENT

Abstract

The study makes an attempt to identify a military metaphor in an offcial business document (hereinafter referred to as the OBD) and to depict the process of determinologization of the military vocabulary in neutral one (in the form of a metaphor) in order to present the specifcs of the military term formation. The study focuses on the coexistence of the military language constructs and the military metaphor in the OBD, which thereby rethinks the priorities of semantic dominance of the military language constructs (lexemes, term phrases) to the military metaphors, foregrounding the content and scope of the military-political discourse. The similarity between the special lexemes and the term phrases and the metaphor can be found in the lineup of semantic dependence between the concepts in fragments of the OBD. The difference between the term phrase and the metaphor consists only in the frequency of use of term locations (terminological units that are two, three and four component phrases) and the frequency of use of the metaphor in the OBD; in regulation of the terminological phrases and the metaphors according to the degree of term logicality; calculation and preservation of the global value that determines the importance of the components (term phrases, metaphors) for solving content analysis problems. To some extent, the method of analysis allows to outline the stylistic pertain of the military terminology, which is a key unit for consideration of special translation with the pronounced military-communicative function and the military metaphor, which is confdently becoming a universal mean of understanding the military realities. The main purpose of the study is to analyze the military metaphor in the OBD in order to demonstrate the in-depth knowledge of the military-political discourse texts