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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">46245</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2687-0088-44480</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">BOGWBA</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">The interplay of conceptual metaphors and evaluation in press reports on the AUKUS agreement</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Взаимодействие концептуальных метафор и оценок в пресс-релизах о соглашении AUKUS</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/0000-0002-2683-4834</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Trnavac</surname><given-names>Radoslava</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Трнавац</surname><given-names>Радослава</given-names></name><name xml:lang="zh"><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Associate Professor at the School of Linguistics, The National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. She has previously worked at Simon Fraser University (Canada), University of Novi Sad (Serbia), and University of Belgrade (Serbia). Her current research focuses on evaluation in discourse, immigration discourse, the language of real and fake news, and discourse coherence. She has published internationally in peer-reviewed journals, including English Language and Linguistics, Corpus Pragmatics, Functions of Language, Corpora, Language Sciences, Text and Talk, Journal of Pragmatics, among others.</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доцент Школы лингвистики Национального исследовательского университета «Высшая школа экономики» (Москва, Россия). Ранее работала в Университете Саймона Фрейзера (Канада), Университете города Нови Сад (Сербия) и Белградском университете (Сербия). В настоящее время её исследования сосредоточены на оценке в дискурсе, иммиграционном дискурсе, языке реальных и фейковых новостей и связности дискурса. Имеет публикации в международных рецензируемых журналах, включая English Language and Linguistics, Corpus Pragmatics, Functions of Language, Corpora, Language Sciences, Text and Talk, Journal of Pragmatics и другие.</p></bio><email>rtrnavats@hse.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1379-4300</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Patterson</surname><given-names>Katie J.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Паттерсон</surname><given-names>Кэти Дж.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="zh"><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Assistant Professor at the University of Granada, Granada, Spain. She has previously taught at the University of Eastern Finland, University Austral de Chile, and the University of Roehampton, London. Her publications include a monograph on metaphor (Routledge, 2018), and articles in international journals on the topic, including Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Language of Aggression and Conflict, Metaphor and Symbol, The Concise Encyclopaedia of Applied Linguistics. In 2020, she was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship for the project “Islamic State, Identity Development and Online Discourse” focusing on religious metaphors and their role in extremist content online.</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доцент Гранадского университета (Гранада, Испания). Ранее преподавала в Университете Восточной Финляндии, Университете Аустральде-Чили и Университете Рохэмптона (Лондон). Среди ее публикаций - монография о метафоре (издательство Routledge, 2018) и статьи в международных журналах по этой теме, включая Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Language of Aggression and Conflict, Metaphor and Symbol и The Concise Encyclopaedia of Applied Linguistics. В 2020 году получила стипендию Марии Склодовской-Кюри за проект «Исламское государство, развитие идентичности и онлайн-дискурс», посвящённый религиозным метафорам и их роли в экстремистском контенте в Интернете</p></bio><email>kpatterson@ugr.es</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">National Research University “Higher School of Economics”</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики»</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="zh"></institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University of Granada</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Университет Гранады</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="zh"></institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-10-02" publication-format="electronic"><day>02</day><month>10</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>29</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>560</fpage><lpage>585</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-10-02"><day>02</day><month>10</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Trnavac R., Patterson K.J.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2025, Трнавац Р., Паттерсон К.Д.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="zh">Copyright ©; 2025, Trnavac R., Patterson K.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Trnavac R., Patterson K.J.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Трнавац Р., Паттерсон К.Д.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="zh">Trnavac R., Patterson K.</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/46245">https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/46245</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The linguistic literature has shown that metaphor provokes evaluative meanings, but it is unclear how different types of metaphor, as well as different genres of discourse influence the realization of such meanings. To partially answer this question, our study aims to investigate the relationship between conceptual metaphors and evaluation in Australian broadsheet and tabloid articles on the AUKUS alliance, the trilateral security partnership between Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. The data comprise all Australian news and opinion articles gathered from Nexis Uni through the University of Granada’s e-library between September 15, 2021, and October 31, 2021. The study employs a parameter-based approach to evaluation and its methodology involves the annotation of metaphors according to the parameters of creativity/conventionality, as well as the examination of their source and target domains. The quantitative analysis indicates that there is a connection between the types of metaphors (conventional and creative) and the characteristics of their evaluation (polarity and explicitness), which are affected by the genre of the corpus and the topic of the content where the metaphors appear. Additionally, the corpus shows that negative emotivity is a prevalent evaluative component of metaphors in both newspapers. The qualitative analysis demonstrates that conceptualizations of metaphors alternate between biological and mechanistic images of the world, with the dominant metaphor domains being almost unilaterally used in both broadsheets and tabloids. The implications of the study suggest that the complex relationship between metaphor and evaluation should be interpreted in light of the text’s genre and topic rather than separately.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Известно, что метафоры обладают оценочными значениями, но остается невыясненным, как различные типы метафор, а также различные жанры дискурса влияют на формирование этих значений. Чтобы частично ответить на этот вопрос, наше исследование нацелено на выявление связи между концептуальными метафорами и оценкой в статьях широкоформатных австралийских газет и таблоидов, посвященных альянсу AUKUS - трехстороннему пакту о партнерстве в области безопасности между Австралией, Великобританией и США. Данные включают австралийские новостные и публицистические статьи, собранные из Nexis Uni через электронную библиотеку Университета Гранады в период с 15 сентября 2021 года по 31 октября 2021 года. В исследовании используется параметрический подход к оценке. Методология включает аннотацию метафор в соответствии с параметрами креативности/ конвенциональности, а также изучение их исходных и целевых областей. Количественный анализ выявил связь между типами метафор (конвенциональными и креативными) и характеристиками их оценки (полярностью и эксплицитностью), которые зависят от жанра корпуса и тематики контента, в котором используются метафоры. Кроме того, результаты свидетельствуют о том, что негативная эмотивность является преобладающим оценочным компонентом метафор в обоих типах газет. Качественный анализ показал, что концептуализации метафор чередуются между биологическими и механистическими образами мира, при этом доминирующие области метафор практически односторонне используются как в широкоформатных изданиях, так и в таблоидах. Выводы исследования показывают, что сложные отношения между метафорой и оценкой следует интерпретировать одновременно в свете жанра и темы текста, а не по отдельности.</p></trans-abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="zh"/><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>metaphor</kwd><kwd>conventional metaphor</kwd><kwd>creative metaphor</kwd><kwd>evaluation</kwd><kwd>genre</kwd><kwd>AUKUS</kwd><kwd>AUKUS</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>метафора</kwd><kwd>конвенциональная метафора</kwd><kwd>креативная метафора</kwd><kwd>оценка</kwd><kwd>жанр</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><award-group><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="en">Radoslava Trnavac has been funded by the Basic Research Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University).</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source></award-group></funding-group></article-meta><fn-group/></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Alba-Juez, Laura &amp; Thompson Geoff (eds.). 2014. 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