Cognitive and Pragmatic Aspects of Metaphors in the Inauguration Speech of the Spanish 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝐺𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑜 Adolfo Suárez

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Pages: 107-118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/CNQW6164

Abstract:

This article aims at analysing the cognitive and pragmatic aspects of metaphors in the inauguration speech of the Spanish Presidente del Gobierno Adolfo Suárez, in Spain’s first constitutional government. The paper will uses a multi-disciplinary approach and relies on Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Charteris-Black’s Critical Metaphor Analysis, Teun Van Dijk’s context model theory, as well as on other pragmatic concepts that contribute to assessing the coherence and cohesion of the text. This qualitative approach intends to look for the presence of metaphors and conceptual metaphors in the speech, while attempting to identify the pragmatic strategies behind them.

Keywords:

pragmatics; inaugural speech; cognitive metaphor; context; political discourse; meaning.

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