| Abstract [eng] |
Corruption is viewed as a phenomenon that, to a greater or lesser extent undermines the rule of law and causes distrust in political, administrative and other institutions. The present thesis focuses on the analysis of metaphors in legal documents and media texts dealing with corruption. The paper aims to identify the prevailing strategies of conceptualization of corruption in the EU Anti-Corruption report and media editorials focusing on the FIFA corruption scandal of 2015. The corpus consists of a document retrieved from the EUR-LEX database and 38 editorial articles collected from global news portals. The study was conducted within the framework of MPA (Metaphorical Pattern Analysis) and MIP (Metaphor Identification Procedure), partially adopting steps from both methods to attain the best results. The results of the analysis demonstrated a predominant conceptualization of corruption in terms of WAR, ANIMATE BEING, OBJECT and SUBSTANCE in legal discourse and ANIMATE BEING, OBJECT, SUBSTANCE and PLANT metaphors in the discourse of media. Interestingly, media editorials are much more varied in terms of source domains of the metaphors, whereas legal discourse is based on more stereotypical metaphors. The prevailing tendency to personify corruption in both types of discourse apparently proves that language is embodied to a very large extent. We tend to understand the nature of crimein reference to character traits and physical actions that humans are often engaged in and which are familiar to us. |
