Conceptual metaphors in Carl Bildt's online discourse concerning Ukraine's European identity

• Authors: Oleksandr Kapranov
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article involves a qualitative research undertaken to elucidate how Ukraine's European identity is constructed by Carl Bildt, Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs. Specifically, the paper's aim is to identify conceptual metaphors used by Carl Bildt in his political online discourse concerning Ukraine within the timeframe from 1 April 2013 until 1 April 2014. In addition to this objective, the article explores whether or not concepts SELF as the EU and OTHER as non-EU respectively are embedded in conceptual metaphors identified in Bildt's discoursal space involving Ukraine's European identity. Results of the data analysis reveal several types of conceptual metaphors which are present in the corpus of Bildt's online discourse involving Ukraine: "EU as a Path", "EU as a Nurturant Parent", "EU as a House", "Ukraine's Politics towards EU as a Stock Market Crash", "Ukraine's Path to EU as Poland's EU Path" and "The EU Flag as a Symbol of the Better Future", respectively. These conceptual metaphors seem to be exacerbated by the presence of the concept SELF.

Keywords

EN

conceptual metaphor; EU; European identity; OTHER; SELF; Ukraine

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Journal: Lodz Papers in Pragmatics
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 61-87

Dates

published

2014-06-01

received

2014-02-24

revised

2014-04-15

accepted

2014-05-23

online

2014-06-01

Contributors

author

Oleksandr Kapranov

• Stockholm University, English Department, SE-106 91, Sweden

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/lpp-2014-0004