A Corpus-analysis of time metaphors in British and Romanian business press

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Published: Apr 6, 2017
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v2i9.1096

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Teodora Popescu
1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia, 15-17, UniriiStr., Alba Iulia, 510009, Romania
Grigore-Dan Iordachescu
1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia, 15-17, UniriiStr., Alba Iulia, 510009, Romania
Crina Herteg
1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia, 15-17, UniriiStr., Alba Iulia, 510009, Romania

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyse metaphors related to TIME from the business discourse (found in British and Romanian business press), and to identify the patterns of occurrence that are most frequent in the two corpora. The main tenet is that cognitive metaphors are instantiations of cultural categories manifested in the language spoken by the community that shares a common set of characteristics within a given cultural matrix. Our analysis is based on two corpora (British and Romanian), consisting of articles from general audience and financial broadsheets, written during 2012-2015. The newspapers used for this study are: The Economist, The Guardian, The New York Times and The Telegraph for the English corpus; and Adevarul, Jurnalul National, Cotidianul, Capital, and Ziarul Financiar for the Romanian corpus. The results were analyses both quantitatively and qualitatively.

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Popescu, T., Iordachescu, G.-D., & Herteg, C. (2017). A Corpus-analysis of time metaphors in British and Romanian business press. New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2(9), 156–162. https://doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v2i9.1096
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Vol. 2 No. 9 (2016): Selected Papers of 3rd Global Conference on Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching (LINELT 2015)
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