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Abstract

This study aims to identify the metaphors and metonymies used to describe economic concepts in Jordanian economic discourse pre- and post-Arab Spring in order to examine whether the events of the Arab Spring have had an impact on these figurative devices. This study also examines whether metaphor and metonymy can be affected by the social and cultural setting in which they are used and by politico-economic factors. In addition, this study aims to explore the notion that economic discourse uses many of the same conceptual metaphors regardless of the language and culture. To achieve this, I compiled a corpus of economic articles published in 2005 and 2008 (i.e. pre-Arab Spring) and 2012 and 2015 (i.e. post-Arab Spring) from two daily Jordanian newspapers. Frequency counts of metaphorical expressions representing the source domains and metonymies were compared to assess their saliency in the two periods and the two newspapers.

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The effect of the Arab Spring on the use of metaphor and metonymy in Jordanian economic discourse
Review of Cognitive Linguistics. Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association 16, 254 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00010.zib
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Keyword(s): Conceptual Metaphor Theory; corpus linguistics; economic discourse; metaphor; metonymy

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