Conceptual Metaphors in Donald Trump’s Political Discourse: Politics Domain (2018)

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Studies About Languages Pub Date : 2019-06-03 DOI:10.5755/J01.SAL.0.34.21886

Vilma Linkevičiūtė

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Abstract

The object of this research is conceptual metaphors in Donald Trump’s political discourse (2018) whichis aimed at his own positioning as an extremely positive and beneficial president who will “make America great again“. Furthermore, he implicitly and explicitly treats his opponents- the Democrats and previous governments as enemies who are guilty for all the problems and troubles in the USA. Linguistic expressions of the following conceptual metaphors POLITICS IS WAR, POLITICS IS A JOURNEY, POLITICS IS A RACE, POLITICS IS A CRIME, POLITICS IS LOVE, POLITICS IS FRIENDSHIP prevail in Donald Trump’s political discourse. There are some expressions of conceptual metaphors, such as POLITICS IS A GAME, POLITICS IS WATER and POLITICS IS SLEEP in Trump’s political discourse. The majority of these conceptual metaphors are based on the opposition I/we–they, where I stands for the President Trump, we are the members of the Republican Party and they are introduced as the Democrats. Conceptual metaphor has an evaluative potential in Trump’s political discourse. Evaluations, expressed through linguistic metaphors and belonging to the same conceptual metaphor, may differ and acquire both positive and negative connotations.

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唐纳德·特朗普政治话语中的概念隐喻：政治领域（2018）

本研究的对象是唐纳德·特朗普政治话语（2018）中的概念隐喻，旨在将他自己定位为一位“让美国再次伟大”的极其积极和有益的总统”。此外，他含蓄而明确地将他的对手——民主党人和前几届政府——视为对美国所有问题和麻烦负有责任的敌人。在唐纳德·特朗普的政治话语中，以下概念隐喻的语言表达盛行：政治是战争，政治是旅程，政治是种族，政治是犯罪，政治是爱，政治是友谊。在特朗普的政治话语中，有一些概念隐喻的表达，如“政治是游戏”、“政治是水”和“政治是睡眠”。这些概念隐喻中的大多数都是基于反对党我/我们——他们，在我代表特朗普总统的地方，我们是共和党的成员，他们被介绍为民主党人。概念隐喻在特朗普的政治话语中具有评价潜力。评价通过语言隐喻表达，属于同一概念隐喻，可能存在差异，并获得积极和消极的含义。

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Studies About Languages Social Sciences-Linguistics and Language

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期刊介绍： The journal aims at bringing together the scholars interested in languages and technology, linguistic theory development, empirical research of different aspects of languages functioning within a society. The articles published in the journal focus on theoretical and empirical research, including General Linguistics, Applied Linguistics (Translation studies, Computational Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Media Linguistics, etc.), Comparative and Contrastive Linguistics. The journal aims at becoming a multidisciplinary venue of sharing ideas and experience among the scholars working in the field.