Metaphors in Political Discourse from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
The paper focuses on various ways in which metaphors in political discourse reflect the cultural and linguistic environments from which they emerge. It discusses conceptual metaphors and their linguistic realisations in popular pre-election discourse in English, German, and three Euro-Mediterran...
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| description | The paper focuses on various ways in which metaphors in political
discourse reflect the cultural and linguistic environments from
which they emerge. It discusses conceptual metaphors and their
linguistic realisations in popular pre-election discourse in English,
German, and three Euro-Mediterranean languages (i. e. Slovene,
Italian and Croatian). One of the main aims of the paper is to
present a contrastive analysis model which combines quantitative
and qualitative methods on the one hand, and top-down and
bottom-up approaches to metaphor research on the other. Reference
will be made to the results of a case study based on the contrastive
analysis of a corpus of pre-election articles related to the
American elections in 2008 which has been undertaken to validate
the proposed model. Itwill be argued that while the selected languages conceptualise elections in similar ways, there are also significant variations which have cultural implications. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ebd8456e2c66415898c45b62396be61b2022-12-22T00:47:47ZengEuro-Mediterranean UniversityInternational Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies1855-33622014-06-0171323Metaphors in Political Discourse from a Cross-Cultural PerspectiveSilva Bratož0University of Primorska, SloveniaThe paper focuses on various ways in which metaphors in political discourse reflect the cultural and linguistic environments from which they emerge. It discusses conceptual metaphors and their linguistic realisations in popular pre-election discourse in English, German, and three Euro-Mediterranean languages (i. e. Slovene, Italian and Croatian). One of the main aims of the paper is to present a contrastive analysis model which combines quantitative and qualitative methods on the one hand, and top-down and bottom-up approaches to metaphor research on the other. Reference will be made to the results of a case study based on the contrastive analysis of a corpus of pre-election articles related to the American elections in 2008 which has been undertaken to validate the proposed model. Itwill be argued that while the selected languages conceptualise elections in similar ways, there are also significant variations which have cultural implications.http://www.emuni.si/press/ISSN/1855-3362/7_003-023.pdfconceptual metaphorspre-election discoursecross-cultural differencescontrastive analysis |
| spellingShingle | Silva Bratož Metaphors in Political Discourse from a Cross-Cultural Perspective International Journal of Euro-Mediterranean Studies conceptual metaphors pre-election discourse cross-cultural differences contrastive analysis |
| title | Metaphors in Political Discourse from a Cross-Cultural Perspective |
| title_full | Metaphors in Political Discourse from a Cross-Cultural Perspective |
| title_fullStr | Metaphors in Political Discourse from a Cross-Cultural Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Metaphors in Political Discourse from a Cross-Cultural Perspective |
| title_short | Metaphors in Political Discourse from a Cross-Cultural Perspective |
| title_sort | metaphors in political discourse from a cross cultural perspective |
| topic | conceptual metaphors pre-election discourse cross-cultural differences contrastive analysis |
| url | http://www.emuni.si/press/ISSN/1855-3362/7_003-023.pdf |
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