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| 1 | Metaphors of conflict in press reports of the February 2008 elections in Pakistan | Susan Burnes |
| 2 | See key below for abbreviations of publications. |
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| 4 | Publication | Concepts | British example | British context | French example | French context |
| 5 | All | an election = a battle | defeat, defeated (1, 2, 8, 48, 54, 55, 60) | his party suffered a crushing defeat, was defeated in… | défaite (F4, F7, F8, F56, F57, F62) | a essuyé mardi une défaite |
| 6 | Ec, Ind | an election = a battle | a fight, fought (52) | a three-way fight, half the seats were fought | | |
| 7 | Ec, G, NS, Tel, Lib, MD | an election = a battle | rout, routed (3, 50) | would not survive the rout, religious parties were routed | débâcle, déroute | cette débâcle est … le signe, déroute écrasante |
| 8 | Tel, Tim | an election = a battle | trounced (4) | The party … trounced Mr M's parliamentary allies | | |
| 9 | Ec, Tel, Tim, LE, LF, Lib, LP, NO, MD | an election = a battle | victory (5, 61) | fireworks and chants of victory, "Victory is our destiny" | victoire (F1, F13, F67), victorieuses | la victoire de l'un des candidats, qui sont sorties victorieuses (du scrutin) |
| 10 | NO, MD, LH | an election = a battle | | | vainqueurs (F59) | deux partis … vainqueurs, les vainqueurs veulent intégrer.. (trans: lit: conquerors, victors) |
| 11 | LP | an election = a battle | | | percée (F9, F64) | qui avaient effectué une percée remarquée.. |
| 12 | LE | an election = a battle | | | prendre d'assaut (F66) | ont pris d'assaut … les rues (trans: lit: took the streets by storm) |
| 13 | Ec, Ind, Tim, Lib, MD | an election = a military campaign | campaigners, to campaign | campaigners also pointed out, Mr S has campaigned | campagne | en faisant campagne, la campagne électorale |
| 14 | Tel | an election = a military campaign | captured (10) | may have captured the pivotal province | | |
| 15 | Lib | an election = a military campaign | | | rallier, ralliement | NS a rallié des légions de nouveaux électeurs (trans: legions of new voters) |
| 16 | LH | an election = physical combat | | | KO | Le général M battu par KO (trans: General M beaten by a knock-out) |
| 17 | MD | an election = physical combat | | | mordu la poussière | ses leaders .. ont mordu la poussière (trans: its leaders… bit the dust) |
| 18 | LP, Lib | a disappointment = a physical blow | | | claque (F2), gifle | une véritable claque politique, Gifle électorale pour M (trans: a real political/electoral slap in the face) |
| 19 | Ec, G, Tel, LE, Lib | a disappointment = a physical blow | blow, dealt a blow (6, 49) | that has received such a big blow, voters dealt a heavy blow | coup | coup dur pour PM, coup rude (trans: a harsh blow) |
| 20 | G, MD, LH | a disappointment = a physical blow | crushing | his party suffered a crushing defeat | écrasante | déroute écrasante (trans: crushing) |
| 21 | Ec, G, NS, LP, LE, LF, NO, LM, MD, LH | a disappointment = a physical blow | suffered (59) | his party suffered a crushing defeat | essuyé, essuyer (F3, F10), subi | a essuyé mardi une défaite, subi une cuisante défaite (trans: suffered) |
| 22 | Ind | a disappointment = a physical blow | victims | the party's high profile victims | | |
| 23 | G, LP, LE, Lib, LM, MD, LH | humiliation = physical pain | stinging | The result was a stinging rebuke for… | cinglante (F5), cuisant (F11) | a essuyé .. une défaite cinglante, un cuisant revers (trans: lit: lashing, burning) |
| 24 | Ec, G, MD | political groupings = military groupings | lieutenant (53) | Nearly every major Musharraf lieutenant lost.. | troupes | leurs troupes (trans: their troops, i.e. their supporters) |
| 25 | LP, LE, LF, Lib | political groupings = military groupings | | | camp (F6, F58, F60) | le camp présidentiel |
| 26 | LE, LF, LM, MD | political groupings = military groupings | | | force, forces | Nous travaillerons avec toutes les forces démocratiques, ces 3 forces, la force dominante |
| 27 | Lib | a number of people = a military force | | | légions | des légions de nouveaux électeurs (trans: legions of new voters) |
| 28 | MD | a political opponent = a military opponent | | | ennemi | les pires ennemis du PPP (trans: the PPP's worst enemies) |
| 29 | LH | a powerful person = a fortification | | | rempart | voyant en lui le meilleur rempart (trans: lit: considering him to be the best fortification) |
| 30 | Ec, NS, Tim, MD | political base = fortress | stronghold (51) | its traditional stronghold | bastion | Dans son bastion … |
| 31 | NO, MD, LH | a constituency = a battlefield | battleground | would be the country's key battleground | | |
| 32 | NS | control = physical subjugation | stranglehold | the old stranglehold on Pakistani politics | | |
| 33 | G | criticism = enemy fire | cover (= protection) | that has given M valuable political cover | | |
| 34 | NS | criticism = physical attack | bashers | Pakistan-bashers | | |
| 35 | MD | criticism = physical attack | | | acharnée | la lutte acharnée (between two parties) |
| 36 | MD | criticism = physical attack | | | déstabilisant | chacune déstabilisant l'autre |
| 37 | MD | criticism = physical attack | | | pousser | il souhaite pousser M. Moucharraf à la démission |
| 38 | Ec, Tim, Lib, MD | disagreement = physical breakage | split, splinter,splintered (58) | which split from Mr S's party; leads splinter faction; the mma has splintered | division, divisés; rupture, césure | ils étaient profondément divisés; le point de rupture entre la population et le Président; une césure profonde entre l'islam et .. |
| 39 | Lib, MD | disagreement = physical combat | | | lutte | la faiblesse du régime ..tient avant tout à la lutte acharnée (des partis) (trans: the main cause of the regime's weakness is the fierce conflict between parties) |
| 40 | G, Tel | political difficulties = death | survive, survival (9) | would not survive the rout, Mr M's political survival | | |
| 41 | Ind, Tel, Tim, LE, NO, Lib | to deprive of office = to remove physically | ousted (7, 11) | An alliance … was also ousted from power, the country's ousted Chief Justice | évincé (F65), renversé (F61) | NS, évincé en 1999; avait été renversé |
| 42 | Ind, Tim, Lib | to gain a seat = to make it safe | secured, to secure | have secured enough seats, to secure his own… | | |
| 43 | Lib, LH | to gain more votes than = to beat | | | battu | Le parti du Président battu aux…(trans: the President's party beaten in …) |
| 44 | NS, MD | to gain more votes than = to eliminate physically | wiped out | has all but wiped out Shah and his fellow… | effacement | l'effacement du MMA (parti) |
| 45 | Tim, Lib | to gain more votes than = to sweep aside | swept | to have swept the vote | balayé | qui a balayé les ... amis (trans: who swept aside the friends of…) |
| 46 | Lib | to leave someone few options = to trap them in a corner | | | acculer | ce qui risque d'acculer .. le chef (trans: which could easily corner the leader…) |
| 47 | G, Ec | to work hard = to fight | fought (52) | he has fought doggedly to maintain power | | |
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| 49 | Metaphors not from the source domain of conflict: |
| 50 | Econ, NS | a situation = a container | Out (46), fringes (56), verge, spilling out | Out with the president's men; on the fringes of this main drama; on the verge of civil war; an insurgency spilling out | sortant (F12), entrée | gouvernement sortant, l'entrée dans un gouvernement |
| 51 | NS, LE | a state = a person | stumbling, struggling | Pakistan was stumbling, P. has been struggling | sombre (F68), vécu (F69), menace | ce pays … ne sombre dans le chaos, ce pays qui a vécu ..., le principal péril qui menace le Pakistan |
| 52 | MD | political difficulties = a physical fall | | | chute | précipitant sa chute (parti) (trans: hastening [the party's] fall) |
| 53 | MD | political difficulties = a physical collapse | | | effondrement | l'effondrement spectaculaire des partis islamistes |
| 54 | Econ, NS | political difficulties = death | oblivion (57), disintegration, terminal, fall apart, demise | electoral oblivion; the disintegration of the country; terminal lawlessness; P. is not about to fall apart; rumours of Pakistan's demise | | |
| 55 | MD | political power = physical strength | | | fort | l'ancien homme fort du Pakistan |
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| 57 | Key to publications (E - English, F - French) |
| 58 | Ec | The Economist |
| 59 | G | The Guardian |
| 60 | Ind | The Independent |
| 61 | LE | L'Express |
| 62 | LF | Le Figaro |
| 63 | LH | L'Humanité |
| 64 | Lib | Libération |
| 65 | LM | Le Monde |
| 66 | LP | Le Point |
| 67 | MD | Le Monde diplomatique |
| 68 | NO | Le Nouvel Observateur |
| 69 | NS | New Statesman |
| 70 | Tel | The Telegraph |
| 71 | Tim | The Times |
