Mapeamentos metafóricos em artigo esportivo

Abstract

This article discusses some metaphors used to define the performance of the soccer player Hulk. The data were taken from an sport’s article of the newspaper O Povo, in Fortaleza – Ceará. The identification of conceptual metaphors, as well as their respective mappings to design the metaphorical realizations, aimed at determining the possible production of meanings. Our main goal with this research is answering the following question: what are the mapping mechanisms involved in generating metaphorical sense? To this end, we had as underlying goal to describe the structure of the network of conceptual mappings of the mechanisms responsible for generating the metaphorical sense, which is why we chose the Theory of Conceptual Metaphor of Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and Lakoff (1987) to support our analysis.