The collection includes articles and chapters from books by major modern philologists, philosophers and logicians (E. Cassirer, J. Ortega y Gasset, A. Richards, J. Searle, etc.), containing an analysis of the metaphorical meaning of words in everyday life. speech, in the language of science and fiction. The phenomenon of metaphor is considered in logical-philosophical, linguistic, cognitive and stylistic aspects. The book provides the basic theoretical concepts of metaphor. Recommended to a wide range of philologists, philosophers, logicians and psychologists.

Metaphor and discourse. Introductory article by N. D. ArtyunovaE. Cashier. The power of metaphorA. Richards. Philosophy of rhetoricX. Ortega y Gasset. Two great metaphors Wheelwright. Metaphor and realityR. Jacobson. Two aspects of language and two types of aphasic disordersA. Vezhbitskaya. Comparison - gradation - metaphorM. Black. MetaphorD. Davidson. What do metaphors mean? Goodman. Metaphor - part-time work. Beardsley. Metaphorical plexusE. Ortony. The role of similarity in simile and metaphorJ. Miller. Images and models, similes and metaphorsD. Bickerton. Introduction to the linguistic theory of metaphorJ. Serle. MetaphorS. Levin. Pragmatic deviation of the statementE. McCormack. Cognitive theory of metaphorD. Lakoff, M. Johnson. Metaphors by which we live. Ricoeur. Metaphorical process as cognition, imagination and sensationP. Ricoeur. Living metaphorT. Dobrzynska. Metaphorical statement in direct and indirect speech. Dobrzynska. Metaphor in a fairy tale