A cross-linguistic analysis of conceptual complexes in the domain of economy

• Mahum Hayat Khan ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de La Rioja

     Universidad de La Rioja

     Logroño, España

     
• Localización: RAEL: revista electrónica de lingüística aplicada, ISSN 1885-9089, Vol. 19, Nº. 1, 2020, págs. 78-96
• Idioma: inglés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Análisis inter-lingüístico de complejos conceptuales en el campo de la economía
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  • español

    En las últimas dos décadas la relación entre la metáfora y la cultura ha sido objeto de estudio en la Lingüística Cognitiva especialmente debido al impacto de la globalización. Este impacto ha afectado particularmente al campo de la economía en el que el uso del lenguaje figurado está extendido. En el contexto de esta investigación, este artículo se centra en explorar no solo el papel de la metáfora, que ha sido el interés de un gran número de estudios, sino también el papel de los complejos conceptuales en las lenguas de dos países históricamente relacionados, pero con una economía muy diferente: Reino Unido y Pakistán. Para ello, metáforas y complejos conceptuales se han sido analizados en urdu e inglés. El análisis ha demostrado, desde un punto de vista interlingüístico, las complejidades del material conceptual en el campo de la economía y la capacidad descriptiva y explicativa de los complejos conceptuales.

  • English

    Over the past two decades, the relationship between metaphor and culture has been an important object of study in Cognitive Linguistics, especially due to the impact of globalisation on our everyday living. This impact has particularly affected the field of economy where figurative language is pervasive. Within this research context, the present article aims at exploring not only the role of metaphor in economics hich has been the interest of a huge amount of studies, but also the role of conceptual complexes in the languages of two historically connected countries which nevertheless differ significantly in their economic development: Britain and Pakistan. To this end, metaphors and conceptual complexes have been analysed in Urdu and English. The analysis has proved in cross-linguistic terms the intricacies of conceptual material in the field of economics nd the descriptive and explanatory adequacy of the account of conceptual complexes mentioned above

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