К ВОПРОСУ ОБ ИСТОРИИ РОССИЙСКО-ГЕРМАНСКИХ ОТНОШЕНИЙ

. The article is devoted to the image of Russia in the minds of German people and bases on studying conceptual metaphors that can be found in jouranlistic texts and represent numerous stereotypes that have been formed in the minds of German people through many centuries of state-to-state relations. The conceptual metaphor represented in modern cognitive linguistics as a mental operation and way to get to know and explain the world is one of the language means that provoke adoption and representation of stereotypes. The author of the present article analyzes conceptual metaphors that develop the image of Russia in German mass media taking into account the aggravation of Russian-German relations. The author used the continuous sampling method to define metaphors used by journalists of German newspapers and journals in 2014 - 2015 and then classified those metaphors according to the following stereotype spheres: geographical location, foreign policy relations, domestic policy relations, soc io-economic environment, culture. The author concludes that German stereotypes that have been existing in the minds of German people for many centuries are still actual and working. German journalists actively use metaphors to actualise these stereotypes of Russia. Taking into account the aggravation of international relations between these two countries as a result of the Ukranian conflict, journalists have started to use more metaphors that create a negative image of Russia.