Investigating family metaphors in the speeches of American presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama in the united nations general assembly
Other Title(s)
استعارات العائلة في خطابات جورج دبليوبوش و باراك أوباما في الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة
Author
al-Shnit, Muhammad Ibrahim Alafi
Source
Journal of Languages and Translation
Issue
Vol. 1, Issue 2 (31 Jul. 2021), pp.1-23, 23 p.
Publisher
Publication Date
2021-07-31
Country of Publication
Algeria
No. of Pages
23
Main Subjects
Topics
Abstract EN
Three salient assumptions suggested by Lakoff (1996 / 2002) in his Morality Politics Theory (MPT): (1) American political positions emerge from two independent moral worldviews that are conceptually entrenched in individuals' beliefs about ideal families.
Conservatives tend to promote the strict father (SF) family model whereas Democrats endorse the nurturant parent (NP) family model.
(2) The conceptual linking or mapping of ideal parenting models onto politics occurs because people metaphorically conceptualise the nation as a family.
(3) Some people may endorse both parenting models (biconceptuals), that is, they can reason about political issues using SF & NP models.
Lakoff additionally argues that American politicians use two conceptual metaphors, NATION IS FAMILY and the WORLD COMMUNITY metaphors, to reason about foreign policy.
Building on empirical study, this paper seeks to examine Lakoff's(1996 / 2002) assumptionsin the speeches delivered by G.
W.
Bush and Barack Obama in the United Nations General Assembly.
The analysis of this research corpus gives different conclusions of that suggested by Lakoff.
Firstly, contrary to what was suggested by Lakoff (1996 / 2002), the data shows that Obama can be labbeled asSFand G.
W.
Bush as NP.
Secondly, the results reveal that both speakers tend to use more logical literal entailments from the models rather than metaphorical expressions when they speak about various moral political issues.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Shnit, Muhammad Ibrahim Alafi. 2021. Investigating family metaphors in the speeches of American presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama in the united nations general assembly. Journal of Languages and Translation،Vol. 1, no. 2, pp.1-23.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1344232
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Shnit, Muhammad Ibrahim Alafi. Investigating family metaphors in the speeches of American presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama in the united nations general assembly. Journal of Languages and Translation Vol. 1, no. 2 (Jul. 2021), pp.1-23.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1344232
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Shnit, Muhammad Ibrahim Alafi. Investigating family metaphors in the speeches of American presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama in the united nations general assembly. Journal of Languages and Translation. 2021. Vol. 1, no. 2, pp.1-23.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1344232
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 22-23
Record ID
BIM-1344232