خلاصة:
The present study was carried out with the purpose of examining the role of metaphorical language in the critical discourse analysis (CDA) of political texts based on a modern framework postulated by Kövecses (2015). The corpus of the study consisted of thirty-thousand words chosen as a textual sample to see which source conceptual domains are used and what generic/discursive attributes emerge upon the analysis. It was prepared through systematic random sampling from different editorial articles in Western political magazines on the relations between Iran and the West in the time span of 2010-2019. Then, Critical Metaphor Analysis was used to explain the trend and patterns in the political articles, mostly lending support to previous research by authority figures in critical and political metaphor analysis that metaphors are used in shaping political thinking, in aiding political persuasion, and in steering cognitive scenarios and models towards the shaping of interpretations of the nations as person or body metaphors. Finally, the study lent ample support to this latter view in its textual findings of the conceptual metaphors used. The findings of the study provide foreign language education in general and the EFL classrooms in particular, with some implications for further research.
ملخص الجهاز:
com Abstract The present study was carried out with the purpose of examining the role of metaphorical language in the critical discourse analysis (CDA) of political texts based on a modern framework postulated by Kövecses (2015).
Furthermore, so far, a bulk of studies have set out to analyze metaphors in political texts (Bednarek, 2005, 2006a; Beer & Landtsheer, 2004; Cammaerts, 2012; Charteris- Black, 2006; Farahani & Adeli Jam, 2019; Hart, 2010, among many others).
Although there are many different models and frameworks of applying critical discourse analysis mitigated with political texts analysis to the texts, Kövecses’s (2015) framework seems to be a more comprehensive and precise conceptual framework, because it brings forth the issue of the influence of context on how metaphors are created, perceived and used.
In the context of Iran, Farahani and Adeli Jam (2019) carried out a study with the purpose of examining the role of metaphorical language in the critical discourse analysis (CDA) of political texts based on the CDA framework and attitudinal model of appraisal theory.
Based on this brief review of the literature and to the best of the researchers’ knowledge, there has been no study so far to critically investigate conceptual metaphors in modern political discourse on Iran-West relations.
Therefore, our knowledge of these concepts is premature and so, to gain more information about the above-mentioned key concepts, the present study attempted to explore conceptual metaphors utilized in a sample of modern political discourse on Iran-West relations through Kövecses’s framework (2015).
The role of metaphorical language in the critical discourse analysis of Western political texts.