Metaphor and ideology: Conceptual structure and conceptual content in Spanish political discourse
| Autor: | Marina Díaz-Peralta |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Metaphor Communication media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts 050105 experimental psychology Linguistics Newspaper Politics 0602 languages and literature Conceptual structure 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Ideology Sociology Conceptual content Cognitive linguistics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Discourse & Communication. 12:128-148 |
| ISSN: | 1750-4821 1750-4813 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1750481317745752 |
| Popis: | This article presents the results of the analysis of a number of linguistic metaphors found in a corpus of opinion articles published in the Spanish newspaper El País. The authors included in the corpus, who tend towards the left of the political spectrum, use metaphor to express moral judgements on the actions and decisions of the conservative, centre-right People’s party ( Partido Popular or PP), which governs Spain with an overall majority. With the aim of describing this discourse, we have undertaken a qualitative analysis with a conceptual framework deriving from CDA and cognitive linguistics. First, therefore, we have made use of the methodology developed by Steen and the Pragglejaz group to extract the discourse units that could be considered as the lexical expression of an underlying mapping between domains, that is, the metaphors; second, according to the descriptions of Talmy, Croft, Sweetser, Sullivan, and Dancygier and Sweetser, we have verified that the different types of grammatical structure in which the lexical items appeared also indicated the existence of a metaphorical thought process; and third, in the words of van Dijk, we have studied the ideological semantics underlying conceptual structures and conceptual content. As we have demonstrated, all the samples of linguistic metaphors found led readers to construct the same interpretation of the meaning: The Spanish People’s party government is the past, a past that provokes rejection and which was thought to be definitively ended. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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