CONCEPTUAL METONYMY AS A MECHANISM OF FORMING “SELF-OTHER” GENERAL IMPLICATIONS IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE (the case of Angela Merkel’s speeches)

CONCEPTUAL METONYMY AS A MECHANISM OF FORMING “SELF-OTHER” GENERAL IMPLICATIONS IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE (the case of Angela Merkel’s speeches)

Author:  A.M. Nekhorosheva

Affiliation:  Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin

Abstract: 
The article is based on the ideas of modern cognitive-discursive linguistics. The mechanism of conceptual metonymy realizing a “self-other” cognitive matrix in the German political discourse (the case of Angela Merkel’s speeches) is studied.

Keywords:  cognitive-discursive approach, political discourse, “self-other” cognitive matrix, conceptual metonymy