Nasti, Chiara (2010) Images of the Lisbon Treaty Debate in the British Press. A Corpus-based Approach to Metaphor Analysis. [Tesi di dottorato] (Unpublished)

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Item Type:	Tesi di dottorato
Lingua:	English
Title:	Images of the Lisbon Treaty Debate in the British Press. A Corpus-based Approach to Metaphor Analysis
Creators:	Creators Email Nasti, Chiara chiaranasti@libero.it
Date:	2010
Number of Pages:	187
Institution:	Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Department:	Scienze statistiche
Scuola di dottorato:	Scienze politiche
Dottorato:	Lingua inglese per scopi speciali
Ciclo di dottorato:	23
Coordinatore del Corso di dottorato:	nome email Di Martino, Gabriella UNSPECIFIED
Tutor:	nome email Venuti, Marco UNSPECIFIED
Date:	2010
Number of Pages:	187
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Metaphor analysis, Lisbon Treaty, British press
Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR:	Area 10 - Scienze dell'antichità, filologico-letterarie e storico-artistiche > L-LIN/12 - Lingua e traduzione - lingua inglese
Date Deposited:	13 Dec 2010 13:41
Last Modified:	30 Apr 2014 19:45
URI:	http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/8307
DOI:	10.6092/UNINA/FEDOA/8307

Abstract

Metaphors play an important role in understanding social and political realities and in particular they are very useful to their user to present complex and abstract situations in terms of more simple and familiar ones. According to Lakoff and Johnson (2003) metaphors are not merely linguistic structures but they shape our thinking and define our social and political reality. Many scholars (Musolff et all. 2001, Musolff 1996, Schäffner 1996) have also shown how metaphors are fundamental in interpreting and understanding the complex dynamics of the political debate about Europe. By presenting European issues in the form of well-known and recognisable schemas and scenarios metaphors make them accessible to the general reader. However, in order to understand complexity of metaphors, it is necessary to analyse them in the context where they occur. Against this background, this paper aims to investigate the representation and description of the European Union integration process related to the Lisbon Treaty debate in a selection of British tabloids and broadsheets. In particular, this research project aims to explore the most recurring conceptual metaphors –MOVEMENT and CONFLICT– in order to show how these metaphors not only describe the scenario created by the Irish rejection of the treaty but also give information about Britain’s perception of the EU and its future.

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