Home Articles List Article Information
CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education
Journal Archive
Volume Volume 89 (2025)
Volume Volume 88 (2024)
Volume Volume 87 (2024)
Volume Volume 86 (2024)
Volume Volume 85 (2024)
Volume Volume 84 (2023)
Volume Volume 83 (2023)
Volume Volume 82 (2023)
Volume Volume 81 (2023)
Volume Volume 80 (2022)
Volume Volume 79 (2022)
Volume Volume 78 (2022)
Volume Volume 77 (2022)
Volume Volume 76 (2021)
Volume Volume 75 (2021)
Volume Volume 74 (2021)
Volume Volume 73 (2021)
Volume Volume 72 (2020)
Volume Volume 71 (2020)
Volume Volume 70 (2020)
Volume Volume 69 (2020)
Volume Volume 68 (2019)
Volume Volume 67 (2019)
Volume Volume 66 (2019)
Volume Volume 65 (2018)
Volume Volume 64 (2018)
Volume Volume 63 (2017)
Volume Volume 62 (2016)
Volume Volume 61 (2016)
Volume Volume 60 (2015)
Volume Volume 59 (2015)
Khalifa, D. (2018). A Corpus-Based Study of Conceptual Metaphors in Egyptian Economic News Headlines. CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education, 64(1), 5-29. doi: 10.21608/opde.2018.95951
Dr. Reham Khalifa Khalifa. "A Corpus-Based Study of Conceptual Metaphors in Egyptian Economic News Headlines". CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education, 64, 1, 2018, 5-29. doi: 10.21608/opde.2018.95951
Khalifa, D. (2018). 'A Corpus-Based Study of Conceptual Metaphors in Egyptian Economic News Headlines', CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education, 64(1), pp. 5-29. doi: 10.21608/opde.2018.95951
Khalifa, D. A Corpus-Based Study of Conceptual Metaphors in Egyptian Economic News Headlines. CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education, 2018; 64(1): 5-29. doi: 10.21608/opde.2018.95951

A Corpus-Based Study of Conceptual Metaphors in Egyptian Economic News Headlines

Article 1, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 2018, Page 5-29  XML PDF (425.11 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/opde.2018.95951
View on SCiNiTO View on SCiNiTO
Author
Dr. Reham Khalifa Khalifa
Abstract
A conceptual metaphor is considered a vehicle of recognizing
the world. The present research seeks to shed light on the
important role and implications of conceptual metaphors in
business and economic texts. It aims to analyze the conceptual
metaphors found in the Egyptian economic news headlines. So, this
research is an attempt to identify, classify and quantify kinds of
metaphors adopted in the Egyptian economic news headlines. To
achieve this purpose, a 100,000-word corpus was built by
collecting economic news headlines from three of the most popular
Egyptian e-journals. The results indicate that there are different
kinds of metaphors used in the Egyptian journalistic reports
dealing with business and economy such as ECONOMY IS
HUMAN, ECONOMY IS A BUILDING, ECONOMY IS A
JOURNEY, ECONOMY IS A WAR, ECONOMY IS A GAME,
ECONOMY IS WEATHER and ECONOMY IS UP AND DOWN.
Some of the metaphors are used more frequently than others.
Keywords
Conceptual Metaphor; Economic News Headlines; Linguistic Expression
Statistics
Article View: 74
PDF Download: 682