Peculiarities of functiony of a metaphor in tourist's discourse

The article is conducted within framework of cognitive-discursive paradigm of modern linguistics and is focused on studying the specificity of tourism knowledge conceptualization and verbalization in Russian and German. In this article we present the analysis of tourist's discourse on the basis of method of metaphorical modeling. Various forms of metaphorical representation of touristic concept "destination" in Russian and German discourse indicate different levels of conceptualization of tourism knowledge.