Keyword: «conceptual metaphor»

The article focuses on metaphors with a color component used by politicians in the English-language media discourse to nominate economic realities. Using the example of the functioning of metaphors with a color component, the article considers the interaction of economic and political discourse in modern English-language media.

Working within the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, we analyze linguistic data used in conceptualization of importance in the Russian language, including material from dictionaries and a dictionary of associations. In our earlier work we have established existence of several elements of the source domain (weight, size, height, visibility). In this paper we look for explicit or implicit meaning of importance in the lexicographic materials associated with corresponding adjectives within the source domain, and for the underlying common semantic feature that allows these concepts to be used for description of importance.