Metaphors as a cognitive aspect are progressively gaining significance in all levels of linguistics. In linguistics, the metaphor refers to the idea of meaning transfer; however, it still seems quite difficult to indicate the scope and functional scope of this concept. Our research is aimed at the analysis of theoretical approaches used in studying metaphor as a cognitive aspect. In linguistics, there are several approaches to the interpretation of metaphor, for example, the metaphor which is considered as a deviation that has stylistic prerequisites (rhetorical theory of metaphor). This position is partly related to the position that the meaning of a word largely comes down to the conditions that the signifier must satisfy in order to apply a certain word to it. The characteristic feature of this approach is that, it carries the direct meaning - the “arbiter of meaning” in conjunction with certain conditions and conventions of the language that ultimately determines the formation of metaphors. For the purpose of our study there were used such traditional linguistic research methods, as method of observation and description in order to analyze necessary language materials and classify cognitive aspects.

Metaphor, cognitive aspects, theoretical approaches and linguistics, theory, transfer, semantic, ideas, interpretation, lexicalized metaphors, context, stylistic.