Convergence of metonymy and metaphor in the pedagogical discourse of the soviet period

The paper puts an insight into the ways of using recurrent metonymic and meta-phoric models to generate the pedagogical discourse of the Soviet period. Social, political and didactic texts, as well as autobiographic stories make a significant part of the pedagogical discourse of the "Children's Home" magazine. The author of the paper considers the texts in which semantic convergence of metonymy and metaphor occurs. This phenomenon in its turn triggers the processes of sense duality and discursive flexibility of lexical units within the discourse. Metonymic and metaphoric models become recurrent and reveal their semantic potential on the surface level of the pedagogical discourse, and can be also deep-rooted inside the discourse. Such models motivate metonymic and metaphoric extension of the pedagogical discourse of the "Children's Home" magazine. Metonymic and metaphoric extension in the pedagogical discourse is manifested through a surprising number of figurative expressions which derive from conceptually coherent and contrary domains. The relationship between metonymic and metaphoric expressions is natural and intrinsic in the social, political and autobiographic texts. Metonymic and metaphoric expressions converged in the pedagogical discourse of the "Children's Home" magazine became assigned as a matter of convention and people of the Soviet community abode to use this language. The convention-bound use of metonymy and metaphor is a necessary condition in the construction of personal identity and shaping a new generation of young people. Convergence of metaphor and metonymy in the pedagogical discourse is one of the main communicative strategies used to manipulate people. The processes of manipulating people include some discourse codes, transformations and interconnection of linguistic elements implemented by the mapping of concepts of the meto-nymic and metaphoric models that are used in social, political and autobiographic texts. Semantic movement of basic concepts vital for the communication in the Soviet period is salient in the pedagogical discourse of the "Children's Home" magazine. The functional potential of the recurrent models cannot be limited to the discourse generating function only. Metonymic and metaphoric models enable to create a unique communicative environment, to generate ideological discourse and to establish a set of social and cultural values of the Soviet period.

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