A Comparative Study of Metaphorical Markers in National and International News Articles about Revolution of Egypt
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| Title | A Comparative Study of Metaphorical Markers in National and International News Articles about Revolution of Egypt |
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| Abstract | Figurative speech and metaphor play significant role in understanding a text, especially political texts. Because little studies have been done in this field, decision was made to do a research regarding comparative study of metaphorical markers about revolution in Egypt. This study described the comparative study of metaphorical markers in National and International news about revolution in Egypt as defined and classified by Goatly (1997) in two corpora: one consisting of (National news articles, NNs) and another of (International news articles, INNs). Marker categories, the occurrences of markers category were analyzed using Chi-square statistics to determine the occurrences of metaphorical markers in the two corpora and find any probable significant differences. Results showed that a wide range of marker types and a larger number of marker categories were available in the corpus of both NNs and INNs. The frequency of a relatively of individual markers was also higher in this corpus. The differences indicate different attitudes towards the use of metaphors in both NNs and INNs corpora. Implications of this study suggest that pedagogical practitioners dealing with the political texts either in teaching politics, translation or political corpus should be aware of similarities and differences among NNs and INNs text types. |
| Publisher | World Science Publisher |
| Date | 2012-03-28 |
| Source | 2167-6429 |
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