Abstract
Šio straipsnio tikslas – atskleisti, kokia pagrindinė konceptualioji metafora vyrauja šiuolaikiniame britų politiniame diskurse ir kokie jos struktūriniai elementai sudaro bendro moralinio vertinimo pagrindą. Tyrimui buvo pasirinkta trisdešimt analitinių politinių straipsnių iš The Economist elektroninio archyvo. Straipsniai analizuojami remiantis kognityvinės lingvistikos principais bei kokybiniu analizės metodu, kurie leidžia atskleisti kalbiniuose pasakymuose (linguistic expressions) glūdinčias konceptualiąsias metaforas. Nustatyta, kad Britų politikos moralinis vertinimas yra grindžiamas konceptualiąja metafora POLITINIS GYVENIMAS KAIP KELIONĖ. Išanalizavus šios metaforos kalbinę raišką, paaiškėjo, kad straipsniuose vyrauja neigiamas britų politikos vertinimas, atsispindintis konceptualiosios metaforos POLITINIS GYVENIMAS YRA KELIONĖ elementų kalbinėje raiškoje, kai politikos veikėjai (1) vaizduojami kaip „dėmėtos reputacijos“ klajūnai, (2) keliaujantys be tikslo, (3) peržengiantys nustatytas ribas, (4) nesugebantys apeiti/įveikti kelyje pasitaikančių kliūčių ir t.t.
Highlights
The challenging claim by Johnson about existential and metaphoric nature of morality has given ground to far-reaching implications in linguistic studies (1997, 1–25)
This article aims at analyzing the critical articles in terms of moral grounds or judgment underlying British political life via conceptual metaphor
The entire MORAL system is centred round the conceptual metaphor POLITICAL LIFE IS A JOURNEY
Summary
The challenging claim by Johnson about existential and metaphoric nature of morality has given ground to far-reaching implications in linguistic studies (1997, 1–25). Within the anthropocentric orientation the philosopher defines morality as an abstract radial category that ‘reaches into every aspect of human lives’ (1993, 253–258), meaning that morality reaches into politics, whose participants perform certain actions, and follow certain procedures and techniques. In order to perform these prescribed political actions, the political ethics should be held to. To learn more about these problems, the morality metaphor has to be analyzed. This kind of linguistic analysis will result in the implications of prevailing attitudes, judgments, values, beliefs and conceptual models that govern political life. As morality is an abstract category, it is conceptualized in more concrete basic level categories, which is a clear-cut case of conceptual metaphor, e.g. these events have stained the government’s reputation is an illustration of conceptual metaphor IMMORALITY IS DIRT wherein the abstract concept of immorality is perceived via the concept of dirt
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