Metaphorical world modelling in the discourse of the language personalityof a dialect speaker

In the article the author describes metaphor as a cognitive phenomenon that reflects the mental pattern of perception and modelling of the reality. The subject of world modelling is the language personality of a traditional culture bearer.The analysis of metaphorical units that function in individual discourses is aimed at interpreting the world image with cultural sets of peasant society.The spheres of metaphorical modelling of the reality in the discourse of the language personality are people in their physical, emotional, intellectual and social existence, wildlife and inorganic world, space and time. Simultaneously, they are the sources of metaphor creation. The character of interaction between the source-sphere and the target-sphere is resourceful to design abstract model types: human → human, human → world, world → human, world → world.The results of these models description lead to the conclusion that most recently a human being is both the subject and the object of metaphor creation. A human is the reference point in comprehending the diversity of the spatial-temporal continuum, other spheres are less important for him.The conclusion of the article is that the world perception of the language personality is mythological, 'body-oriented', with the concrete prevailing over the abstract. The most developed reference spheres of metaphor functioning are given.

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