Conceptual metaphor Economy is a patient in the newspaper discourse before recession

Konceptualna metafora ekonomija je pacijent u novinarskome diskursu uoči recesije istraživat će se sukladno stajalištima teorije konceptualne metafore. Korpus se sastoji od članaka iz britanskoga časopisa The Economist koji se bave događanjima u svjetskoj ekonomiji i biznisu u razdoblju 2000. – 2006. Nastojat ćemo dokazati hipotezu da se u novinarskome diskursu uoči recesije ekonomske pojave češće konceptualiziraju i opisuju kao bolesti ljudskoga tijela nego kao dobro zdravlje i psiho-fizička kondicija, a izbor konceptualnih metafora i njihove jezične manifestacije odgovaraju standardnim liječničkim postupcima pri pregledu i liječenju pacijenta.Conceptual metaphor economy is a patient in the newspaper discourse before recession will be analyzed in accordance to the viewpoints of conceptual metaphor theory. Corpus of research is composed of articles from the British magazine The Economist which deal with events in the world economy and business in the period 2000-2006. We shall try to prove hypothesis that in the newspaper discourse before recession economic phenomena are more often conceptualized and described as human body illness than as good health and psycho-physic condition, and that selection of conceptual metaphors and their language manifestations comply with standard medical procedures and treatments of patients