Metaphorical modeling of unhappy love in French song discourse (based on the works of Christophe Maé)

The article is dedicated to the study of metaphoric models representing the phenomenon of unrequited love in French song discourse. The relevance of the work is determined by the necessity for a systematic linguistic description of the ways to verbalize complex emotional states. Unlike everyday and literary texts, song discourse offers a unique aesthetic of experience, often paradoxical and elevated. The aim of the study is to establish a correlation between types of metaphoric models and psychological scenarios of experiencing love suffering. To achieve this goal, an analysis was conducted of the lyrics of songs by French performer Christophe Maé from the album Je veux du bonheur / I Want Happiness. Special attention was paid to identifying the dominant metaphoric models in each song and their connection with the role positions of the lyrical hero. The research was carried out using methods of continuous sampling, thematic classification, quantitative and qualitative analysis of metaphoric units, as well as the metaphorical modeling methodology by A. P. Chudinov. The scientific novelty of the study lies in viewing unrequited love as an object of metaphorical modeling based on contemporary French songs, establishing a correlation between metaphoric models and psychological scenarios of experiencing unrequited love. It was identified that the "victim" scenario is realized through anthropomorphic, sensory, and artifact models; the "rescuer" scenario is predominantly expressed through artifact models; the "lonely sufferer" scenario is manifested through naturalistic models. The same scenario can be constructed using different complexes of metaphoric means. It has been established that all identified scenarios have a culturally softened, aestheticized character and do not reach a clinical degree of pathology. The results obtained can be applied in courses on linguistic text analysis, cognitive linguistics, and linguocultural studies, as well as in comparative studies of song discourse in different languages.