Political metaphorization as an attribute of the English-language media discourse

The presented research reflects the study of topical linguocognitive problems in the field of English-language media communication. The subject of the research is connected with the process of metaphorization of the politically oriented plane of communication at the verbal and nonverbal levels. Within the framework of the study, the author's interpretative analysis of a contextual nature is indicated. In general, both a new view on the study of the problems of political metaphorization through linguistic analysis of cognitive phenomena is demonstrated and an algorithm for the transformation of individual journalistic meanings into national ones is shown. The research methodology is complex and based on the use of a cognitive approach to the process of interpreting the phenomenon of political metaphorization of media discourse, taking into account contextual content-semantic and interpretative types of analysis. The results of the study are related to the prospects of constructing algorithmization of political events and phenomena cognitive interpretation in order to form public opinion in the context of a modern English-language media platform. The formulated conclusions are extrapolated to the media tonality of the verbal and nonverbal levels of the metaphorical image of Russia and Ukraine, their connotative-vector orientation, while designating typical means of political metaphorization of the analyzed discourse. The presented results and conclusions of the study can be used in a wide range of scientific and educational spheres of communicative trend with a political dominant.