Abstract
It has often been pointed out that metaphor is particularly important among linguistic expressions of evaluation. However, there have been very few studies investigating the relation between evaluation and metaphor, this is explored in this study in the context of online news reports. The aim of this study, conducted within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, is the analysis of the mechanisms of evaluation operating in metaphors related to the concept of ANGER. This corpus-assisted study explores the metaphorical representations of the Tunisian Revolution of 2011 in a French news outlet. The study is based on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) developed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and the rhetorically, cognitively and corpus-oriented approach to metaphor known as Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) developed by Charteris-Black (2004). The analysis aims to explore the attitudinal evaluation of the metaphorical representation of the emotion of ANGER in social movements. The results revealed that ANGER is mostly conceptualised as a force of nature, and that expressions of ANGER are evaluated as insecurity and dissatisfaction.
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