This article focuses on the dynamics of metaphor in the English electronic discourse "Elections 2010 - 2012 in Ukraine". It focuses on new donor domains' appearing, aspect specter of donor domains' broadening, donor domains' fading and metaphoric representations' expanding within one domain as types of metaphoric dynamics. Here the dynamics of metaphor is studied with the help of propositional and metaphoric modeling, as well as contextual-interpretational and componential analysis. The propositional modeling aims to define the structure of propositions in the donor domains and in the recipient domain Politics. The metaphoric modeling helps to explain the mechanism of donor and recipient domains' integration. This paper deals with the peculiarities of donor domains and the recipient domain Politics integration in the texts of the English electronic political articles. Donor domains provide the recipient domain Politics with language signs that form the basis of metaphors. The article also determines cognitive background and extralinguistic factors influencing the changes of metaphoric models in the English electronic mass-media. Such online newspapers represent the events and phenomena of the 2010 presidential elections and 2012 parliamentary elections in Ukraine.

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