This article analyses the use of (deliberate) metaphors in political discourse produced by French-speaking Belgian regional parliamentarians during non-institutional political interviews. The article first investigates if the use of deliberate metaphor limits itself to a particular type of political discourse (i.e. public and institutional political discourse) or if metaphor use is also found in other types of settings (i.e. non-institutional political discourse). Second, the article analyses the variation of deliberate metaphor use between political actors depending on gender, seniority and political affiliation. To this end, the article applies Steen’s (2008) three-dimensional model of metaphor analysis on biographical interviews conducted with French-speaking Belgian regional parliamentarians (RMPs). Our results indicate that RMPs, when using non-deliberate metaphors, mostly rely on source domains such as construction, battle and relationships. This is in contrast with the use of deliberate metaphors, where source domains like sports, nature and container take the upper hand.

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政治沟通中的隐喻

本文分析了讲法语的比利时地区议员在非机构政治采访中所产生的政治话语中（故意的）隐喻的使用。本文首先探讨了刻意隐喻的使用是否仅限于特定类型的政治话语（即公共和制度政治话语），或者隐喻的使用是否也存在于其他类型的环境中（即非制度政治话语）。其次，文章分析了政治行为者之间故意隐喻使用的变化，这取决于性别、资历和政治派别。为此，本文将 Steen (2008) 的隐喻分析三维模型应用于对讲法语的比利时地区议员 (RMP) 进行的传记访谈。我们的结果表明 RMP，使用非刻意隐喻时，主要依赖于结构、战斗和关系等来源领域。这与刻意隐喻的使用形成对比，其中体育、自然和容器等源领域占据上风。