FEATURES OF FUNCTIONING METAPHORS IN A MEDICAL DISCOURSE (BASED ON A MATERIAL OF RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH)

Abstract

The article considers metaphorization as one of the ways of forming medical terms. The main methods of creating metaphorical nominations in Russian and English are ana- lyzed; semantic analogies between the metaphorical units of two languages are investigated. The authors define some main groups of metaphor-terms, identify the mechanisms of implementation of metaphorical nominations and the features of their functioning in a medical discourse.