The metaphorical conceptualization of economic relationships in the mass media discourse related to the economic and financial uncertainty (based on the English-language articles on debt ceiling crisis in the USA in 2023)
Popova Vera Vladimirovna
Smolensk branch of the Financial University under the Government of the RF
Submitted: 22.11.2023
Abstract. The article examines the metaphorical conceptualization of a crisis economic situation in mass media discourse. The article looks at the metaphorical representation of economic relationships in the period of financial uncertainty caused by the inflation and the debt ceiling crisis in the USA in 2023. The aim of the research is to determine and describe the most relevant metaphorical models depicting the economic phenomena in the given historical period. The scientific novelty lies in describing the ways of metaphorical conceptualization of economic relationships in mass media discourse brought to life by new empirical data of the debt ceiling crisis. The research findings include describing the most relevant metaphorical models that depict the economic phenomena in the articles of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist; determining the nominative field of the target concept ECONOMY; extending the corpus of metaphors from crisis discourse and identifying the primary functions of the metaphors used in the texts under the study.
Key words and phrases: метафора, метафорическая модель, функции метафоры, концепт-цель, концепт-источник, публицистический экономический дискурс, metaphor, metaphorical model, functions of metaphor, target concept, source concept, mass media economic discourse
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