THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF IMAGE-METAPHORS SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS IN THE SOURCE TEXT AND THE TARGET TEXT OF THE NOVEL BY G. ORWELL "1984"
Metaphor is one of the most important stylistic devices in a language. Many scientists and linguists studied metaphor in the texts of different genres. This article is devoted to revealing the image-metaphors semantic features in the source text and in the taget text of the anti-utopia novel by G. Orwell «1984» and their comparative analyses. The topic of this article is relevant since metaphor is one of the most productive means of an author’s individual style. Moreover, metaphor is a problematic translation aspect. On the one hand, it is necessary to translate a metaphor adequately in order to render an author’s individual style at maximum, and on the other hand, a translator should always consider the significant differences in metaphorical systems of different languages. Therefore, a comparative analysis based on the semantic features of the selected image-metaphors in the source text and the target text of the studied novel presents particular interest. In the research, we use a componential analysis with the help of which we make a list of representative semantic features of image-metaphors. All these semantic features are grouped into semantic plans: a categorical plan (substantive, adjective, verbal, adverbial features), an anthropological plan (anthropo-somatic, anthropo-mental features), a social plan (socio-personal, socio-non-personal features), a naturalistic plan (natural-biogenic, natural-abiogenic features), an ontological plan (onto-material, onto-non-material features). A quantitative method of frequency analysis is also used in order to identify percentage degree of relevance of each semantic feature within a separate semantic plan. The comparative analyses of the semantic features in the source text and the target text has revealed rather significant differences within the quantitative representation of the image-metaphors semantic features in the studied texts.