метафора; семантический резонанс; культурный код; когнитивная схема; медиатизация; прецедентностьPsycholinguistic Mechanism of Collective Metaphor Recognition: a Model of Semantic Resonance

The article is devoted to a psycholinguistic analysis of the mechanism behind the collective recognition of metaphors, despite their inherently subjective nature. The authors explore how a personal expression in public discourse acquires the status of a universally significant phenomenon. This process is based on the activation of structures universal to the linguocultural community: fundamental cognitive schemas, deep cultural codes, and emotional archetypes. The concept of semantic resonance is proposed as the central explanatory mechanism. Semantic resonance is understood as the moment when an individual utterance enters a phase with the collective semantic field, thereby actualizing a new, productive, and more accurate understanding of the metaphor’s precedent meaning. To analyze this phenomenon, the article proposes a four-level model that examines the interaction of cultural codes (archetypes, myths), cognitive schemas (spatial metaphors), emotional response (activation of the limbic system), and mediatization (repetition, visualization, algorithmic dissemination). The model’s practical efficacy is demonstrated through the analysis of contemporary metaphors from modern Russian media discourse. It is argued that precedence is a form of collective cultural-linguistic memory, transmitted through repetition, context, and visual representation. Thus, the collective understanding of a metaphor is shown to be not a matter of chance, but a consequence of a complex, yet systematic, psycholinguistic organization.

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