From economic crisis to austerity policies through conceptual metaphor: a corpus-based comparison of metaphors of crisis and austerity in the Portuguese press

Augusto Soares da Silva

doi:10.1075/dapsac.87.02soa

From economic crisis to austerity policies through conceptual metaphor: a corpus-based comparison of metaphors of crisis and austerity in the Portuguese press

Augusto Soares da Silva^*

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Abstract

This chapter analyses the role of conceptual metaphors in the conceptualization and ideological exploitation of the global financial crisis and the subsequent austerity policies in the Portuguese press. The analysis relies on a corpus of news and opinion articles published between September 2008 and March 2009, when the financial breakdown that led to the global economic crisis took place, in June-July 2011, after the entry of the Troika in Portugal and the announcement of the first austerity measures, and May 2013, when protests against the austerity policies intensified. Assuming the general frameworks of Cognitive Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis and corpus-based and discourse-based approaches to conceptual metaphor, the study highlights how metaphor can be a powerful conceptual and discourse strategy to frame economic, political and social issues and to serve emotional and ideological purposes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The language of crisis. Metaphors, frames and discourses
Editors	Mimi Huang, Lise-Lotte Holmgreen
Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages	51-86
Number of pages	36
ISBN (Electronic)	9789027261540
ISBN (Print)	9789027204967, 9027204969
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.87.02soa
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Name	Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture
Volume	87
ISSN (Print)	1569-9463

Keywords

Austerity policies
Cognitive linguistics
Conceptual metaphor
Critical discourse analysis
Embodiment
Financial crisis
Ideology
Persuasion

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Silva, A. S. D. (2020). From economic crisis to austerity policies through conceptual metaphor: a corpus-based comparison of metaphors of crisis and austerity in the Portuguese press. In M. Huang, & L.-L. Holmgreen (Eds.), The language of crisis. Metaphors, frames and discourses (pp. 51-86). (Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture; Vol. 87). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.87.02soa

Silva, Augusto Soares da. / From economic crisis to austerity policies through conceptual metaphor : a corpus-based comparison of metaphors of crisis and austerity in the Portuguese press. The language of crisis. Metaphors, frames and discourses. editor / Mimi Huang ; Lise-Lotte Holmgreen. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. pp. 51-86 (Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture).

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Silva, ASD 2020, From economic crisis to austerity policies through conceptual metaphor: a corpus-based comparison of metaphors of crisis and austerity in the Portuguese press. in M Huang & L-L Holmgreen (eds), The language of crisis. Metaphors, frames and discourses. Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, vol. 87, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 51-86. https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.87.02soa

From economic crisis to austerity policies through conceptual metaphor: a corpus-based comparison of metaphors of crisis and austerity in the Portuguese press. / Silva, Augusto Soares da.
The language of crisis. Metaphors, frames and discourses. ed. / Mimi Huang; Lise-Lotte Holmgreen. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. p. 51-86 (Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture; Vol. 87).

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