Metaphor as a Means of Organising the Semantic Space of a Text (based on M. A. Bulgakov’s Cycle of Stories “A Young Doctor’s Notebook”)
Abstract
The article presents the results of a study on the characteristics of metaphor functioning in M. A. Bulgakov’s cycle of stories “A Young Doctor’s Notebook”. It is demonstrated that metaphorical units serve not only as a means of expressiveness in a literary text, but also structure its semantic space by entering into systemic relationships, organising thematic pairs, fi elds, chains, distributing along the lines of the text’s key motifs and helping to reveal its ideological and thematic content.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Language
Metaphor
and Cognition
Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
Linguistic research and analysis
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Университетский научный журнал
- Issue
- 90
- Pages
- 166–171
- Publication date
- 27 February 2026
- Language
- EN