Conceptual Metaphor in American Presidential Inaugural Addresses

Quantitative Analysis of US Presidential Inaugural Addresses

The research aims to investigate several features of inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States. The goal of the paper is to observe the presidential speeches from a viewpoint of stylometry indices and to discover whether political and historical circumstances (wars, financial crisis, ideology, etc.) influence the style of inaugural addresses, analogically to findings presented ...

A Study on Conceptual Metaphors in Presidential Inaugural Speeches

FOGSI Presidential Inaugural Address.

I wish to thank one and all for electing me as President for the year 2013. With the support of all the FOGSI’ans, I feel confident, optimistic, excited, and enthusiastic to begin my responsibility of carrying forward the work of this prestigious organization. This organization has offered great opportunities and led me to embrace several challenges—the most recent one is that of the position o...

History, memory, and profession: a view of American psychiatry through APA presidential addresses, 1883-2003.

The address of the retiring president of the American Psychiatric Association has been a traditional part of the annual meeting of the association since 1883. The presidential address, which has explicitly been exempted from general discussion or criticism, has become an opportunity for the elected leader of the association to reflect on the state of the profession. Over the last 120 years, the...

The Conceptual Metaphor of Jamal (Beauty) in Shams’ Lyrics

In this paper, based on the contemporary theory of cognitive metaphor, the metaphoric functions of Jamal (Beauty) and the clusters of images related to it, namely the world, man, face, sun, mirror, etc. in Mawlavi's lyrics are explained. In theology, the motif of conceptual metaphor of Jamal is Ro'yat (vision). Finding its way into mysticism, "vision" is expressed in the metaphor of B...