Autore
Giribaldi, Elena

Titolo
Metaphors We Tweet By in US-Russia Relations: A Corpus-Assisted Study on News Tweets and Users’ Replies
Periodico
Textus
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 151 - Pagina finale: 188

Social media has reshaped digital journalism, shifting news dissemination from top-down models to participatory platforms like Twitter (now X). This study adopts a mixed-method approach, combining Cognitive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis to study metaphors in Twitter discourse on US-Russia relations. It pursues two goals: (i) identifying metaphors in news tweets in the 2014-2021 time frame (ii) analysing user replies to metaphorical news tweets. Findings reveal that VIOLENCE is not only a dominant semantic domain but also the most metaphorically used. While metaphors identifying Russia as a threat are common in institutional tweets, user replies show low metaphor uptake and introduce new metaphorical framings, especially anti-elite ones, notwithstanding the news outlet. The platform’s influence appears to blur stylistic boundaries between press types, while metaphor contributes to deligitimisation and polarisation in digital discourse.



SICI: 1824-3967(2025)3<151:MWTBIU>2.0.ZU;2-V
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.7370/119423
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