Publications

Publication details [#53171]

Rojo López, Ana María and María Ángeles Orts Llopis. 2010. Metaphorical pattern analysis in financial texts: Framing the crisis in positive or negative metaphorical terms. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (12) : 3300–3313.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conceptualization | economics | frame | metaphor | newspaper report

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This comparative analysis of the conceptual metaphors of the Global Systemic Crisis in both English and Spanish financial artices from The Economist and El Economista , demonstrates that metaphors constitute a powerful mechanism to frame economic crisis and serve certain political interests.