Subescenas y escenas primarias que conforman algunas metáforas del lenguaje político periodístico

Abstract

The use of metaphor in political discourse has awoken great interest in the field of Cognitive Linguistics. Most authors have based their analyses on the typology based on the nature of the source domain proposed by Lakoff & Johnson (1980) and Lakoff & Turner (1989). In this paper, we have chosen Grady¿s typology (1997, 1999), which classifies metaphors as primary vs compound metaphors. We have also considered the analysis of some units of experience called subscene and primary scene developed by Grady & Johnson (2002), which present a new level of description of metaphors in the printed press based on the experiential motivation and grounding of correlation metaphors (e.g.: POLITICAL POSITIONS ARE LOCATIONS, POLITICAL PURPOSES ARE DISIRED OBJECTS).