Comparative Investigation of Military Metaphors in China-Russian Political Discourses

Abstract

Political metaphor is frequently used in present-day political discourse. Nowadays, political metaphor has become one of the most lapidary, active and effective ways to express political outlooks and political influence. Complex political concepts, which are difficult to understand by everybody in the twinkling of an eye, can be easily understood after a cognitive bridge of the metaphor investigation, which helps people to see the light and understand this or that nation, the cultural inheritance, the ideology and the mode of thinking being formed at a certain historical stage of the country. In general, the article examines military metaphors, substantiates the generality of the metaphor and analyses its metaphoric unicity. Military metaphors are often used in political discourses of the both countries, which comes out as a result of comparing politics with wars. However, the fields and methods of military metaphors used in political discourse of the both countries are different, which reflects the different nationalities of the two peoples.