The relation between metaphor and frames in the meaning construction of the concept of politics in the speeches of Jair Bolsonaro
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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2024.v20n1a62983Abstract
In this article, we discuss, in the light of the postulates of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff; Jonhson, 1980; Lakoff, 2002) – especially the Critical Approach to Metaphor (Charteris-Black, 2004; Musolff, 2004, 2016; Goatly, 2007) – and Frame Semantics (Fillmore, 1976, 1982; Duque, 2015), the construction of meaning of the concept of Politics by Jair Bolsonaro in 15 excerpts taken from the corpus, organized by Gonçalves (2022), consisting of 187 speeches given by the former President of the Republic in 2019. To do this, a qualitative-quantitative methodology was adopted, using the AntConc software to quantify the occurrences of the lexicon relating to Politics and then observe the way in which its meanings are constructed by the subject of the discourse. The results show that, by activating the interactional frames MILITARY_SPEECH and CHRISTIAN_SPEECH, the subject of the discourse, based on a set of beliefs and values, motivated by the moral model of the STRICT FATHER (Lakoff, 2002), constructs the meanings of the concept of Politics based on the conceptual metaphors POLITICS IS JOURNEY, POLITICS IS WAR, POLITICS IS A RELIGIOUS ACT.
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