EBONYI JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE
EJLLS Publication
EJLLS| Title: | The Interface Between Politics and Football in Language Use: A Conceptual Metaphor Theory |
| Author(s): | Aliyu Yakubu YUSUF |
| Abstract: | This paper examines the interface between the language use in the discourse of politics and that of football. It is found out that in Kano state, people commonly portray politicians as footballers, especially during discussion on social media platforms such as Whatsapp and Facebook. Therefore, the study uses a purposive sampling procedure and selects some metaphorical expressions from 2 Facebook posts and some generated comments from the posts. The selected expressions were analyzed through the application of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory associated with Lakoff and Johnson (1980). The findings reveal that through the use of language, the social media users often depict politicians as footballers. In other words, through the mapping of football and politics as source and target domains respectively, a particular metaphor ‘Politics is Football’ is established. |
| Keywords: | Language, Politics, Football, Interface, Metaphor |
