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Conceptual Love Metaphor in English Pop Songs

This MA thesis deals with metaphors, i.e. with conceptual love metaphors. There are two approaches to metaphor: the traditional one where metaphor is considered a poetic device and the cognitive one, which was studied here. Metaphor is present in thought and action. Conceptual metaphor consists of two parts ; domains – source and target domain. The source domain is a more concrete concept, which is used to describe the target domain. The target domain is either an abstract or not clearly picturable concept that is drawn from the source domain. There are three different types of conceptual metaphors: structural, orientational and ontological. The focus of this MA thesis was the structural conceptual metaphor, since love metaphors are mainly of this kind. In order to explain love in terms of something more concrete, lyrics of 28 pop songs were analyzed in order to find several types of conceptual love metaphors, such as LOVE IS A JOURNEY, LOVE IS MADNESS, LOVE IS FIRE and LOVE IS WAR. The conclusion was that love metaphors are omnipresent in everyday life, as well as in music. Love is a theme of most songs. Therefore, we will always speak about love in terms of something more familiar to us in order to express it.

conceptual love metaphor, cognitive approach to metaphor, source domain, target domain, pop songs

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