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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Russian Journal of Linguistics</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2687-0088</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2686-8024</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">38058</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2687-0088-34560</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">LVQQWU</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="zh"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">French political symbolism and identity construction</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Французский политический символизм и конструирование идентичности</trans-title></trans-title-group><trans-title-group xml:lang="zh"><trans-title/></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5499-8521</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Trim</surname><given-names>Richard</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Трим</surname><given-names>Ричард</given-names></name><name xml:lang="zh"><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Professor Emeritus in linguistics at the University of Toulon, France. His interest in metaphor and symbolism covers a wide variety of fields including historical linguistics, contrastive linguistics and translation with the analysis of corpora in both political and literary discourse.</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Заслуженный Почетный профессор Тулонского университета (Франция), специалист в области лингвистики. Его исследования метафоры и символизма включают различные области, в том числе историческую лингвистику, контрастивную лингвистику и переводоведение с фокусом на политическом и художественном дискурсе.</p></bio><email>richard.trim@univ-tln.fr</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University of Toulon</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Тулонский университет</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="zh"></institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2024-03-05" publication-format="electronic"><day>05</day><month>03</month><year>2024</year></pub-date><volume>28</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Metaphor across Languages, Cultures and Discourses</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Метафора в языке, культуре и дискурсе</issue-title><fpage>102</fpage><lpage>122</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2024-03-05"><day>05</day><month>03</month><year>2024</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2024, Trim R.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2024, Трим Р.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="zh">Copyright ©; 2024, Trim R.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Trim R.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Трим Р.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="zh">Trim R.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/38058">https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/38058</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The present study examines how the language of political symbolism operates within the framework of identity construction. It focusses on the themes of sovereignty during the 2022 French presidency of the European Union and the national presidential election campaign. On the basis of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, it suggests that, apart from purely linguistic features, extra-linguistic factors are also essential in order to convey a global view of symbolic rhetoric. The analysis is conducted according to an overall 6-tier model of figurative origins involving the parameters of personal background, political context, cultural history, reference, conceptual metaphor and linguistic metaphor. By applying the parameters of the model, it is proposed that the core of political argumentation in the corpus analysis is based on national symbols and the conceptual mapping they embody. The basic hypothesis of the model assumes that a politician attempts to portray the symbolisation of unity in accordance with his or her political background and personal biography. A political narrative is thereby created within the current political context using predominant symbols in cultural history. An over-riding factor is the role of referential points which may determine divergence in conceptual mapping. These features then lead to the construction of conceptual metaphors which can take on a particularly hyperbolic structure in the ensuing linguistic metaphors. The implications of the study highlight the important role of symbolism in political debate, its interaction with conceptual metaphor, the relevance of extra-linguistic factors portrayed by the 6-tier model, the link between cultural history and hyperbolic linguistic structures and political divergence in similar symbols.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Цель статьи - рассмотреть, как язык политического символизма функционирует в построении идентичности. Основное внимание уделяется теме суверенитета во время председательства Франции в Европейском Союзе в 2022 г. и национальной президентской избирательной кампании. На основании теории концептуальной метафоры высказывается мысль о том, что для глобального взгляда на символическую риторику, помимо чисто языковых особенностей, важны и экстралингвистические факторы. Анализ проводился с использованием шестиуровневой модели истоков образности, включающей следующие параметры: личные биографические данные, политический контекст, культурная принадлежность, референция, концептуальная метафора и языковая метафора. Применение данных параметров модели в корпусном анализе позволяет предположить, что суть политической аргументации опирается на национальные символы и воплощаемую ими концептуализацию. Согласно гипотезе, лежащей в основе модели, политик конструирует символы единства в соответствии с собственным политическим прошлым и личной биографией. Таким образом, политический нарратив создается в текущем политическом контексте с использованием символов, превалирующих в истории культуры. Главным фактором является роль опорных точек, которые могут определять расхождения в концептуальном картировании мира. Эти особенности затем приводят к построению концептуальных метафор, которые могут гиперболизироваться в последующих языковых метафорах. Результаты исследования указывают на важную роль символизма в политических дебатах, его взаимодействие с концептуальной метафорой, значимость экстралингвистических факторов, связь между историей культуры и гиперболизированными лингвистическими структурами, а также политические расхождения в сходных символах.</p></trans-abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="zh"/><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>metaphor and symbolism</kwd><kwd>discourse analysis</kwd><kwd>figurative origins</kwd><kwd>identity construction</kwd><kwd>sovereignty</kwd><kwd>French politics</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>метафора и символизм</kwd><kwd>дискурс-анализ</kwd><kwd>истоки образности</kwd><kwd>конструирование идентичности</kwd><kwd>суверенитет</kwd><kwd>французская политика</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Baxter, Andrew M. &amp; Alex Nowrasteh. 2021. 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