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The article deals with phenomenon of metaphor as a means of language world picture representation in the English and Russian linguocultures. In the current investigation” language world picture” is considered as a definite way of conceptualizing reality specific for a definite language and possessing both universal and national specific character. In the article the importance of studying metaphor as a culturally marked layer of a language is stated. The aim of the research is to show on the example of Russian and English ethno cultural metaphors the peculiarities of the “world image” perception of the Russian and English linguocultures representatives. In the research integrated cognitive-linguistic and discourse-analytic approaches to the study of metaphor were used.

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