CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF METAPHOR APPLIED IN THE US POLITICAL DISCOURSE (ON PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE)

Authors

  • Sona Hakobyan Eurasia International University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53614/18294952-2020.1-172

Keywords:

critical analysis, metaphor, Conceptual Metaphor, corpus, US political discourse, metaphor identification, metaphor interpretation, metaphor explanation, event structure, ideology․

Abstract

The article is a critical analysis of metaphors applied in the US political discourse in line with the Armenian Genocide. The article keenly touches upon the method of “Critical approaches to metaphor” and Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) in the context of US ideology and its evasive policy on Armenian Genocide recognition. Correspondingly, the study is a corpus analysis with the data of the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). Corpus studies of metaphor meticulously outline the intentions of the US presidents on the Armenian Genocide along with the motives of valuing the events of 1915 through the representation of conceptual metaphors.

Author Biography

Sona Hakobyan, Eurasia International University

Chair of Foreign Languages and Literature, Eurasia International University, Doctorate at Brusov State University, Weiser Professional Development Fellow, University of Michigan, Ph.D. in Philology

hakobyan04.07@gmail.com

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Published

2020-06-26

How to Cite

Hakobyan Ս. . (2020). CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF METAPHOR APPLIED IN THE US POLITICAL DISCOURSE (ON PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE) . Banber Eurasia International University, 1(1), 172–183. https://doi.org/10.53614/18294952-2020.1-172

Issue

No. 1 (2020): Բանբեր-2020-01

Section

LINGUISTICS AND PHILOLOGY