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Conceptual Metaphors in Jordan Parliamentary Elections Headlines
Oday Mohammad Alshorafat
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2021.10.005
University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
This study aims at exploring and identifying the use of metaphors in Jordan parliamentary elections headlines as used by RASED Jordan. The data of the study consist of 50 headlines derived from RASED Jordan website. A Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP) is used to achieve the study aims. In this regard, the framework of Pragglejaz Group (2007) is adopted to identify the metaphors in the corpus. The results of the study revealed that there are four conceptual metaphors in Jordan parliamentary elections headlines as used by RASED Jordan. They are “ELECTION IS WAR”, “ELECTION IS A FIRE”, “ELECTION IS A RACE”, and “ELECTION IS A HEALTH STATUS”. The study findings also indicated that the most dominant metaphor is “ELECTION IS WAR”, while the least common one is “ELECTION IS A HEALTH STATUS”.
metaphor, conceptual metaphor, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, elections
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