As metáforas do futebol brasileiro

Abstract

This paper presents a qualitative analysis of metaphorical expressions found in brazilian soccer domain. The data consist of 316 tokens collected from the speech of brazilian speakers who broadcast soccer games, by radio or television, along the year of 2005. Using the theories of functional linguistics and cognitive linguistics, our goal is to show how we use concrete and familiar domains of our experience to conceptualize the soccer game. The study confirms the existence of iconic, non-arbitrary, motivations that are behind the metaphorical expressions.