CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS AND METHAPHORICAL MEANING OF NATURAL PHENOMENON IN ENGLISH

Abstract

This article discusses significant principles of metaphor themes employed in discourse and usage of passages in English on natural catastrophes to represent a natural phenomenon. The main aim is to reveal what ideological perspective is embedded in such a metaphorical conceptualization, with the focus on the examination of the several sample utterances taken from daily newspapers and reading texts within the frame of natural disaster.