CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR IN THE POETICS OF THE NOVEL: COGNITIVE AND AESTHETIC POTENTIAL IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK FICTION
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Keywords: conceptual metaphor, extended metaphor, deliberate metaphor, MIPVU, source domain, poetics of the novel, English novel, Uzbek novel.Abstract
Abstract: The article examines how conceptual metaphors that extend beyond a single sentence shape the plot, themes and titles of novels. Six metaphors are analysed in K. Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, G. Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, V. Woolf's To the Lighthouse, O'. Hoshimov's Tushda kechgan umrlar, A. Cho'lpon's Kecha va kunduz and A. Qodiriy's O'tkan kunlar. Metaphor-related words were identified with the MIPVU procedure; each metaphor was then described by its source and target domains, its status as direct, indirect or deliberate metaphor, the poetic operation applied to it (extension, elaboration, composition, questioning) and its scope in the novel. Five of the six metaphors extend beyond the sentence; two reach the title. Life is conceptualised as being carried by a current (Ishiguro) and as a drugged dream (Hoshimov); power as a boot on a face (Orwell) and the state as a ship (Cho'lpon); conflict as a bloody cloud (Qodiriy); feeling as a turning wheel (Woolf). The Uzbek novels more often direct metaphor at collective, historical targets and show characters interpreting metaphors, while the English novels develop metaphors of individual experience and of power.
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