By examining the conceptual metaphors used in sports texts, one can understand the kind of view that subconsciously exists behind the minds of writers. To find such viewpoints, the metaphors used in the two newspapers, Khabar-e-Varzeshi and Abrar-e-Varzeshi in 2019 were examined in order to obtain conceptualization methods and attitudes hidden behind the produced texts. To that end, the researcher used the critical analysis of metaphor suggested by Chartris-Black (2004) as the research method that is the result of a combination of cognitive approaches, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics and corpus, as well as the conceptual metaphors approach introduced by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) as a theoretical framework for data analysis.
The results of this study show the importance of language in polarizing sports with an ethnic and racial perspective. The corpus of the study consists of 133 thousand words, obtained from the two newspapers Khabar and Abrar–e Varzeshi newspapers related to 2019 and was divided into two parts: the data related to the first six months and those related to the second half of the year.
The changes in this period in terms of the frequency of occurrence of metaphors during 2019 have remained relatively unchanged. The shift of the source domain as well as the change in the metaphors used in that domain in the first and second six months of the year are the two main types of change named small and large changes by the author. The evidence that confirms these findings (called a major change) is an increase in the metaphors of conflict and war and consequently a decrease in construction metaphors. In the second six months of 2019, it was found that conflict metaphors constitute 42% of the total metaphors, while in the first six months it is reduced by 32%.
Asadi, M. , Golfam, A. , & Soltani, A. A. (2024). Metaphorical conceptualization in sports discourse of wrestling in Iran through corpus approaches to critical metaphor analysis. Journal of Sport Management and Motor Behavior, (), -. doi: 10.22080/jsmb.2024.21926.3648
MLA
Mohammad Asadi; Arsalan Golfam; Ali Asghar Soltani. "Metaphorical conceptualization in sports discourse of wrestling in Iran through corpus approaches to critical metaphor analysis", Journal of Sport Management and Motor Behavior, , , 2024, -. doi: 10.22080/jsmb.2024.21926.3648
HARVARD
Asadi, M., Golfam, A., Soltani, A. A. (2024). 'Metaphorical conceptualization in sports discourse of wrestling in Iran through corpus approaches to critical metaphor analysis', Journal of Sport Management and Motor Behavior, (), pp. -. doi: 10.22080/jsmb.2024.21926.3648
CHICAGO
M. Asadi , A. Golfam and A. A. Soltani, "Metaphorical conceptualization in sports discourse of wrestling in Iran through corpus approaches to critical metaphor analysis," Journal of Sport Management and Motor Behavior, (2024): -, doi: 10.22080/jsmb.2024.21926.3648
VANCOUVER
Asadi, M., Golfam, A., Soltani, A. A. Metaphorical conceptualization in sports discourse of wrestling in Iran through corpus approaches to critical metaphor analysis. Journal of Sport Management and Motor Behavior, 2024; (): -. doi: 10.22080/jsmb.2024.21926.3648
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