Using Metaphors in Political Discourse: Selected US Inaugural Speech
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This paper sets out to examine the use of metaphors in political discourse, specifically in US presidential inaugural speeches. It attempts to find out the pervasive conceptual source domain of the metaphors in this particular political genre used by the speakers as well as investigates how the use of metaphors reflect the speaker's ideology and power relations as to fulfil their aims. I see metaphor as an important cognitive and linguistic device that reflect and shape people's belief, world view and attitude. Basically, two main theoretical approaches are used in this study: Conceptual Metap...