A Corpus-Based Study of Conceptual Metaphors in Egyptian Economic News Headlines | ||||
| CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education | ||||
| Article 1, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 2018, Page 5-29 PDF (425.11 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/opde.2018.95951 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Dr. Reham Khalifa Khalifa | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| A conceptual metaphor is considered a vehicle of recognizing the world. The present research seeks to shed light on the important role and implications of conceptual metaphors in business and economic texts. It aims to analyze the conceptual metaphors found in the Egyptian economic news headlines. So, this research is an attempt to identify, classify and quantify kinds of metaphors adopted in the Egyptian economic news headlines. To achieve this purpose, a 100,000-word corpus was built by collecting economic news headlines from three of the most popular Egyptian e-journals. The results indicate that there are different kinds of metaphors used in the Egyptian journalistic reports dealing with business and economy such as ECONOMY IS HUMAN, ECONOMY IS A BUILDING, ECONOMY IS A JOURNEY, ECONOMY IS A WAR, ECONOMY IS A GAME, ECONOMY IS WEATHER and ECONOMY IS UP AND DOWN. Some of the metaphors are used more frequently than others. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Conceptual Metaphor; Economic News Headlines; Linguistic Expression | ||||
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