Межкультурные особенности функционирования метафоры в экономическом дискурсе в период мирового финансового кризиса

Abstract

The article covers economic metaphors used in French, English and Belorussian newspaper articles. Journalists start to implement metaphors from such conceptual fields as “natural disasters”, “illnesses”, “hostilities and fear” in order to describe the processes of the world financial crisis and its consequences. The difference in the usage of economic metaphors in different counties reveals the intercultural perception of the crises processes.