The economy is an organism? A study of metaphors in Malaysian business times

• Main Authors: Tengku Mahmood, Tengku Farah Petri, Rafik-Galea, Shameem, Mohamad Ali, Afida, Mohd Kasim, Zalina
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malaysian Association of Modern Languages 2013
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27960/1/The%20economy%20is%20an%20organism%20A%20study%20of%20metaphors%20in%20Malaysian%20business%20times.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27960/; http://www.journals.mymla.org/index.php/MJLL/article/view/9

This article applies Conceptual Metaphor Theory developed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) to investigate the metaphorical linguistic manifestations of the conceptual metaphor the economy is an organism based on Charteris-Black and Ennis’s (2001) proposed conceptual metaphor. This study is a non-experim...