tailieunhanh - Sport metaphors in political news headlines

The research paper is aimed at investigating sport metaphors in news headlines whose contents are related to politics, more specifically, in headlines of some electronic articles on the US presidential election campaign 2012. | VNU Journal of Science: Foreign Studies, Vol. 32, No. 2 (2016) 12-20 Sport Metaphors in Political News Headlines Nguyen Thi Thu Hang* Faculty of Post – Graduate Studies, VNU University of Languages and International Studies, Pham Van Dong, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam Received 30 November 2015 Revised 20 March 2016; Accepted 26 May 2016 Abstract: The research paper is aimed at investigating sport metaphors in news headlines whose contents are related to politics, more specifically, in headlines of some electronic articles on the US presidential election campaign 2012. By dint of exploring sport metaphors in such headlines, the study is expected to reveal sports whose language appears with high frequencies in political news as well as to uncover reasons underlying the mechanism of cognition in those sport metaphors. Some implications in translation are also mentioned at the end of the research paper. Keywords: Sport metaphors, political, news headlines. 1. Introduction∗ appears so commonly in the field of politics and suggest some implications in translating metaphors. The current study investigates sport metaphors in the context of politics, more specifically, in the news headlines of some electronic articles on US presidential election campaign 2012. Under the light of cognitive linguistics [1], sport and politics have a close relationship in which sport is the source domain and politics is the target domain. Since the research article mainly focuses on sport metaphors, it obviously elaborates on a single kind of metaphor, that is, structural metaphor – POLITICS IS SPORT. The study is carried out for the purpose of exploring how the sport metaphors are used in those political news headlines as well as which sports are used for US presidential election 2012. In addition, the research paper will explain why sport language 2. Theoretical background . Metaphors from cognitive perspective Contemporary theories on metaphors shed light on the pivotal role of .