Economic Metaphors in English and Romanian: A Comparative Analysis

This book is a comparative study of economic metaphors in English and Romanian. It provides an overview of metaphor research in the field of economics, and it analyses the way in which the main metaphors used to conceptualize economic phenomena are realized lexically in the two languages. This cross-linguistic perspective is intended to reveal both the common ground shared by English and Romanian and the areas where they do not coincide in terms of the metaphors that shape their economic discourse.