Published : 2024-10-04

The Metaphor of the Living Organism in the Spanish Economic Press

Abstract

Metaphor is one of the most frequently used linguistic resources in economic journalistic discourse. In addition to metaphors related to health and medicine, metaphors about the human body or animals are also very frequent in the Spanish economic press. Our work is based on the knowledge that the tendency to use metaphors has been on the rise in recent years. This article focuses on the analysis of the metaphors of the living organism obtained from a corpus of selected metaphors from the newspapers El Economista and Alternativas Económicas during 2022. The aim of the study is to analyse the metaphorical terms related to the living organism and to see which source domains are the most frequent. In addition to characterising and grouping metaphorical terms related to different concepts, the aim is to determine the degree of figurative meaning of the Slovak equivalents. On the basis of semantic analysis we have classified different metaphorical terms into groups according to the source domain: illness and health, human body, animals.

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semantic analysis, conceptual metaphor, source domain, economic language, economic press, Spanish press



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Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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