A Comparative Study of War and Sport Metaphors in Political News Headlines 
https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/tfg/2018/196074/Perez_Carla_TFG.pdf
Abstract
This paper examines conceptual metaphors based on war and sport that are used in
political headlines in English and Spanish from a contrastive perspective. By dint of
analysing news headlines, collected from more than seventy online newspapers, the study
aims to reveal not only the analogies between both languages but also the connections
between the target domain politics and the source domains war and sports. Following Lakoff
and Johnson’s theories (1980), the corpus of headlines used in this paper is examined through a
detailed metaphor analysis which includes a descriptive, an interpretative and a comparative level.
This analysis shows that the frequent use of metaphors in political headlines serves a two-fold
purpose: first, to show the reader hidden issues and political views and second, to catch the
readers’ attention and shape our personal thinking about politics.