Linguistic means of metaphorization of the conceptosphere as a way of representing the category of evaluativeness

The article aims to identify the conceptosphere as a set of mental images united by one communicative space – four works by the famous American writer of Afghan origin Khaled Hosseini. The conceptosphere is presented as a structured knowledge and a way of organizing cognitive space, identifying the culture of the nation, and demonstrating its richness through language. The variety of linguistic means also includes metaphorization. The study demonstrates the relationship between the conceptosphere and the author's evaluativeness. The category of evaluativeness as a universal means of expressing the author's values is manifested by various means of language. The methodology of the research makes it possible to identify linguistic means of representing the main concepts. The paper also analyzes metaphors that serve to enhance the evaluative components. The concepts are compared with the metaphors to determine the linguistic surroundings of the concept used by the author.

The results revealed that the concepts used by the author are often repeated in all four novels. The identified concepts are actualized in the text most often through metaphorization. Thus, the analysis convincingly shows that linguistic means of metaphorizing the conceptosphere are a way of representing the category of evaluativeness, characteristic of Hosseini's author's style.