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The Conceptual Metaphors Of Building And Construction In Newspaper And Research Articl
ISSN: 2617 - 0299
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The Conceptual Metaphors Of Building And Construction In Newspaper And Research Articl
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ICC-0902
Publisher: International Journal Of Linguistics, Literature And Trans..
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Abstract
Cognitive linguists do not view metaphor as a decorative and marginal device but as a tool to reflect different ways of phenomena understanding and situation embodiment. This paper seeks to comparatively analyze the source domain of building and construction in three areas of economics, politics, and health studies in English newspapers and research articles within the framework of cognitive linguistics, to determine which register has the more pervasiveness of metaphors and also to find out the similarities and differences of conceptual metaphors (CMs) in two registers and their respective areas. To this end, MIP (Metaphor Identification Procedure) was used to properly locate and identify metaphors in the corpus of a 1,529,106 words, which was extracted from online newspaper and research article journals between a three years period from the beginning of 2015 to the end of 2018. A chi-square analysis was conducted to see whether the ...
