%0 Journal Article %T The spatial model of conceptual metaphor in A. Ilichevky¡¯s collection of short stories An Asinine Jaw %A Sizykh O. %J Vestnik Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University %D 2013 %I Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University %X This article considers the structure of the conceptual metaphor of death in A.V. Ilichevsky¡¯s collection of short stories An Asinine Jaw. The existential spatial model of the mentioned metaphor and the specific character of its cognitive-semantic organization are revealed. The author identifies the specific features of the metaphorical reconsideration of Russian reality and the ways of the character¡¯s existence in the world. In A.V. Ilichevsky¡¯s short story collection, the conceptual metaphor of death is identified on the basis of the common conceptual metaphor semantics of ¡°vision/no-vision¡± and ¡°dream¡±. %K conceptual metaphor %K spatial model of a metaphor %K metaphor of death %K spatial ¡®top/bottom¡¯ opposition %K existence levels %K A.V. Ilichevsky %U http://journals.kantiana.ru/upload/iblock/ace/Sizykh_168-175.pdf