A metáfora na área econômica

Abstract

This study analyses the simple and compound metaphorical lexicalunits that constitute the keyword list of the economic news genre.The analysed texts are taken from the newspaper Folha de SãoPaulo, and are part of the corpus compiled by NILC – NúcleoInterinstitucional de Lingüística Computacional. The completecorpus is constituted by prose texts from several social domains,among which the journalistic one. Although news is considered asan informational speech genre in which the referential function oflanguage predominates, the use of metaphorical expressions isfound in this kind of text. The theoretical background, consideringspeech genre in the light of Bakhtin’s theory, and concepts ofnews and metaphor, is presented in the first section of the paper.Then, the methodological criteria are described, and the set ofdata is presented and discussed.