Abstract

This is an essay about dominant journalistic discourse from a sociocognitive point of view. Some useful lexical and rhetoric recourses are critically analyzed on the basis of examples related to the recent Gulf War.

Abstract

Elvira Teruel offers a wiew of metaphor as a natural device of human cognition instead of a pure ornamental tool. Metaphor is then shown as a factor of meaning construction pervasive across different kinds of discourse, including conversation and jounalistic discourse.