| This study explores how Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero conceptualizes terrorism and aspects related to it through metaphorical expressions. This includes a revision of the definition of the metaphor along with the identification and analysis of the following elements: the syntactic patterns of metaphorical instances, metaphor keywords, source domains, conceptual metaphors, and conceptual keys. The interpretation and explanation of all these elements is provided within the social, historical, and geopolitical context. Furthermore, this study also intends to address issues in the process of analyzing metaphorical expressions within political discourse, debating problems that the data reveals, and how I determine to solve these issues. This allows me to develop a more precise and detailed method for analyzing metaphorical expressions with real data. The corpus is based on Zapatero's political discourse during his presidency (April 2004 to April 2007). Only the parts of the political speeches that mention aspects related to terrorism were selected from the corpus.;Past research has analyzed metaphorical language from a cognitive, semantic, and pragmatic point of view. This study undertakes a cognitive, semantic, and pragmatic perspective in analyzing the framing of terrorism. The cognitive approach will help to understand and interpret the metaphor as a part of human thought, and the pragmatic analysis will help to interpret the context in which the metaphors occur. I build on two main approaches: a cognitive perspective, Lakoff s Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and a pragmatic perspective, Charteris-Black's Critical Metaphor Analysis.;My research suggests that the definition of metaphor should include the analysis of syntactic patterns in order to be able to identify them in corpus. Furthermore, the identification and categorization of metaphorical elements are not always clear. This indicates that metaphor is part of a continuum rather than having clear-cut boundaries. This study also shows that the coexistence of metaphorical elements such as source domains allows for the framing and conceptualization of terrorism. Finally, all metaphorical elements provide a frame of reference to build and reveal Zapatero's political ideology in a systematic and consistent way. |
