دراسة لغوية معرفية للاستعارة المفاهيمية في النقاشات البرلمانية البريطانية == A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Conceptual Metaphors in British Parliamentary Debates
Author name:
سعد جاسب داغر
Supervisor name:
حمید حسون بجیة المسعودي
General topic:
Foreign Languages
Specific topic:
English - Language
Degree:
Doctorate
University:
University of Babylon - College Of Education For Human Sciences - Department Of English Language
Language:
English
University location:
Babylon
First pages:
06T1067 - p.pdf
Abstract:
The current dissertation is an attempt to adopt a cognitive linguistic theory, namely the Conceptual Metaphor Theory as a means for critical discourse analysis of a sample of British parliamentary debates. In so doing, it gives an example of the fertile merge between Cognitive Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis. The British parliamentary debates used as the study sample deal with the First Gulf War (1991) that followed Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in August 1990. The study is based on the hypotheses that conceptual metaphors of different types prevail in British parliamentary debates, as a sub - genre of political discourse, and that many of these conceptual metaphors are politically motivated because they are used for persuasive and/or manipulative discourse purposes. The aim of the study is to uncover the political motivation of these metaphors and in thus doing, it , as a general aim, may attract the attention to the possibility of adopting Cognitive Linguistic theories for Critical Discourse Analysis purposes. The methodology followed includes using the metaphor identification procedure developed by the Pragglegaz group (2007) followed by a classification, interpretation and explanation of the identified conceptual metaphors in terms of Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory. Two outstanding conclusions are that : British parliamentary debates are replete with conceptual metaphors of the three types (orientational, structural, and ontological) and that some of these metaphors (especially of the ontological type) can definitely be shown to be highly politically motivated as they are used for persuasive and/or manipulative purposes.
