This article presents a comparison of metaphor usage in British and French newspaper
reports of the February 2008 parliamentary elections in Pakistan and of Barack Obama's …

Relevant contributions to the contemporary study of metaphor have come from cognitive
linguistics, psychology, rhetoric and philosophy. Scientists have also helped to throw light on …

Until a century ago, a metaphor was just a mere figure of speech, but since the development
of discourse analysis, a metaphor has become more than merely incidental to the content of …

When studying political language, researchers tend to follow three different but related
paths. The first is to concentrate principally on the mere content of political language. These …

This paper examines whether and how the metaphorical language of Belgian politicians at
election time differs from their language use during periods in between elections. We expect …

This article aims to analyze the use of economic metaphors in the particular case of the
European sovereign debt crisis, by the examination of the public discourse as reflected in …

Metaphors are powerful linguistic tools that shape our understanding of the world and
influence our attitudes and beliefs. This study conducts a comparative analysis of the …

In the present study a corpus-based approach is employed to compare the use of metaphor
describing the global economic crisis of 2008 in the mainstream economic press in Britain …

This research investigates metaphor conceptualization in economic articles collected from
the Financial Times and their Arabic translations in Al-Iqtissadia newspaper. In this study, a …

This paper aims to show that metaphors are a powerful tool to frame economic issues and
serve certain political interests. To this purpose, we have carried out a comparative study of …