Conceptual metaphors in the public speeches of Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin (2014-2015)
Journal: Cognition communication discourse
Year: 2016

This pilot study discusses conceptual metaphors reconstructed via analysis of linguistic metaphorical expressions (ME) which, being conventional for political discourse, signify POLITICS, ECONOMY, and AMERICA / RUSSIA target conceptual domains as the highlights of the politicians’ public speeches. The data – ME coming from B. Obama’s and V. Putin’s speeches obtained from official Internet resources – are processed according to the methodology developed earlier by the author of this paper. Ground