Gastronomic verbal metaphor as a realization means of culture gastronomic code in the french language

The paper is devoted to the urgent problem of diverse reflection of the linguistic and cultural worldview. The research purpose is to characterize semantic and structural peculiarities of the verbal gastronomic metaphor as the manifestation mechanism of the gastronomic metaphoric code of the French linguistic culture. The realization of the research tasks has been achieved through the use of the corpus of phraseological units with a “gastronomic verb” as a core component. Semantic peculiarities of the verbal gastronomic metaphor have been examined on the basis of a group of verbs that define meals: a semantic classification of such metaphors has been worked out. It has been suggested that the most diverse metaphors are those that define person’s internal and external character traits as well as state and relationship with other people. Structural peculiarities of a verbal gastronomic metaphor have been examined on the basis of a group of verbs meaning multiple cooking techniques and actions: cognitive supports of such metaphors have been established, models and sub-models of their formation have been revealed; it has been determined that structural diversity is the peculiarity of a gastronomic metaphor that is formed with a transitive verb as a core component. It has been proved that gastronomic metaphor nominating a wide variety of objects, signs, phenomena, processes, the world, serves as a marker of French linguistic culture.