Metaphorical model “POLITICS as BUILDING” in the UK parliamentary debates
Journal Title: Науковий вісник Дрогобицького державного педагогічного університету імені Івана Франка. Серія: Філологічні науки (мовознавство) - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 2
Abstract
This article concentrates on the analysis of the basic metaphorical representation of politics as building in the political discourse of the UK parliamentary debates. In general political sphere is characterized by high metaphoricity that gives more significance to the information and intensifies its importance during the debates. The research demonstrates how the House of Commons uses the basic metaphorical representation of politics as building in their debates. The formation of this metaphor is studied with the help of propositional and metaphoric modeling as well as contextualinterpretational and componential analysis. The propositional modeling aims to define the structure of propositions in the source domain BUILDING and in the target domain POLITICS. The metaphoric modeling helps to explain the mechanism of donor and recipient domains’ integration during the interactions between the communicants in the parliamentary debates. This paper deals with the peculiarities of donor domain BUILDING and the recipient domain POLITICS integration in the UK parliamentary debates. Donor domain provides the recipient domain POLITICS with language signs that form the basis of political metaphors. The article also determines cognitive background and extralinguistic factors influencing the usage of metaphoric models in the British parliamentary debates. The language means involved in the creation of the new associations are evaluative, emotive and expressive lexemes as well as phraseological units for intensifying the meaning of the provided speeches in the UK parliament. The extralinguistic factors include the events and phenomena related to the political, economic and social spheres. The paper analyses the Hansards of the UK parliament. Such debates represent the events and phenomena of the post – Thatcher period.
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О. І. П’єцух
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