Analysis of typical conceptual metaphors in mo Yan‘s novel “The republic of wine”
Journal: Key Issues of Contemporary Linguistics
Year: 2024

Aim. To investigate the construction method of wine metaphors in Chinese writer Mo Yan’s novel “The Republic of Wine”, their role in the literary work and their typicality based on the systematicity of conceptual metaphors. Methodology. The study carried out the recognition of wine conceptual metaphors in the novel “The Republic of Wine” using the Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije Universiteit (MIPVU), their counting and classification, on the basis of which four categories of wine metapho