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The aim of this paper was to analyze a small number of metaphors and other conceptual mechanisms found in the video "Dreams of Obama". The selected expressions were collected from interviews and comments made by various people who decided to participate in the process of creating the documentary and agreed to voice their opinions on Barack Obama's rise to presidency. Several of the expressions presented in the article seem to have 'the individual dimension' (Kövecses, Metaphor in 106), as they are inextricably interwoven in various aspects of American culture, and related to famous people, places or events. The direct reference to the famous American sportsman Tiger Woods is a clear example of this. In general, Obama's speech is like many other political speeches based on conventional conceptual metaphors, however, in the political context, the metaphors utilize elements of source domains which are not frequently used in everyday discourse. Their purpouse is clearly to present political views and ideas in a novel perspective. Their pragmatic function is to win the audiences' approval and lead them to accept a given worldview. Statements and quotations employed in the documentary represent three basic types of conceptual metaphors. The expressions are thought-provoking and charged with the metaphorical meaning, and they serve as a vehicle for demonstrating various facets of political life in America. (fragment of text)
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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Wright accessed on 1 March 2011.
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