Metaphors and media : the use of metaphors and the construction of news items in the French written press.

This project aims to study the role that metaphors play in the construction of news facts in the media. This way, it contributes to two flourishing linguistic research domains: on the one hand, to the study of metaphors, which occupies a central place in cognitive linguistics, mainly due to the work of Lakoff and Johnson; on the other hand, to the research carried out in contemporary pragmatics on the way in which news facts are created and represented in the media. As specific case study, we work on a corpus of French newspaper articles reporting on the riots that set the French suburbs on fire in the fall of 2005.

Keywords:FRENCH LANGUAGE, METAPHOR

Disciplines:Linguistics, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Other languages and literary studies