The Conceptual Metaphor of Animals Used for Praise and Satire in Al Ghaddafi’s Discourse

Metaphor in the local language plays daily life besides their role rhetoric and poetry. This work shall focus on positives negatives of using metaphor animals Al Ghaddafi’s used animal metaphors his speeches, under Cognitive Linguistics Critical Analysis (CMA). Studies conducted Classical Arabic but this study be concealed meaning. Study objectives are: (1) to unravel meanings underlying metaphors; (2) compare similarities, differences, and/ or inspire discourse. The adopts qualitative data analysis that uses two comparable corpora as source data. collection method utilized CMA order identify metaphorical semantic meanings. also adopted analytical frameworks analyze data, namely and, is theoretical framework (Charters-Black, 2004) symbols cognitive instruments. findings display interrelation between these words with internal states understanding not an arbitrary process, grounded by a human bodily basis which supports hypothesis made (Ibarretxe-Antuñano, 2002).