COGNITIVE MECHANISMS IN THE CREATION OF SYNESTHETIC METAPHORS IN POETIC TEXTS
Abstract
The article is dedicated to investigating the role of cognitive mechanisms in the creation of synesthetic metaphors in poetic texts. It posits that synesthetic metaphors serve as linguistic-cognitive tools, facilitating the expression of abstract concepts through sensory imagery and associations. Leveraging data on the distribution of activity in different brain regions, the article employs a psycholinguistic approach to the study of synesthetic metaphor. It also explores key theories concerning the close interaction between linguistic processes, cognitive mechanisms, and human emotional responses. These include the hypotheses of shared cognitive information processing mechanisms, genetic factors, and neurophysiological aspects of synesthesia. Special attention is given to understanding cognitive mechanisms such as associative synthesis, metaphorical transfer, semantic transfer, cross-modal processing (or multimodal integration), mental reflection, and spatial metaphor. Additionally, it describes the operation of each of these cognitive mechanisms through specific examples drawn from the poetic works of Ukrainian and English authors. The article demonstrates how these cognitive mechanisms contribute to transferring characteristics from one sensory concept to another, creating new associations and enriching poetic texts. The influence of various sensory modalities, including sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste, on the selection of sensory images for crafting synesthetic metaphors is examined, with examples illustrating how the choice of a specific modality can impact the perception and interpretation of poetic texts. The article concludes that cognitive mechanisms reflect the interaction of sound-symbolic or sound-imitating components in various types of synesthetic metaphors. It constructs schematic models of synesthetic metaphors, highlighting their polymodal nature in sensory combinations.
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