The function and role of metaphor in cognitive system

In linguistics metaphor has been recognized as a figurative word that serves artistic and journalistic style descriptive-decorative tool. But we did not pay much attention to the name-creating function of metaphor, fact it is tool brings out mental actions (associations, stereotypes) person through language. Metaphor's property revealing true world, including universal logical knowledge (primitive image world), stereotypical nation (national well basic people, aesthetic taste, etc. It also clear unity represents collected informational (conceptual world) began be determined when anthropological paradigm entered linguistics. From this point view, close study functions determination its influence on enrichment preservation linguistic fund was one objective prerequisites our work. Therefore, in article, before defining cultural aimed distinguish system. framework structural linguistics, verbal expression law simile limited only meaning And how formed person's thinking system, knowledge, state mind, level recognition i.e., processes thought operations revealed language, were studied. order these processes, proved very important role metaphor.