Сognitive and semantic aspects of metaphoric modelling
Metaphor is regarded as a cognitive-semantic device. Together with such sophisticated inventions of humankind as microscope or X-ray, metaphor is able to shed light on intuitive and creative mechanisms of thinking process, thus filling the blanks in the fund of logically objective human knowledge, which opens the possibility to describe abstract concepts of human mind in terms reaching far outside the limits of standard metaphoric models.