The purpose of this s tudy is to analyz e the COVID-19 political discourse from the perspective of critical discourse analysis, to identify what linguistic strategies politicians use to reveal their position and ideologies, and how the social and political situations are reflected in their discourse. The data consist of speeches made by Donald Trump, the former U.S. president, and Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, in terms of text, discourse practice, and sociocultural practice using Fairclough’s 3D model. The findings show that the two politicians used terms that separate ‘us-group’ and ‘them-group’, while showing differences in specific vocabulary choices and discourse composition strategies. Trump tended to use positive self-presentation, optimistic expressions, and focused on economic policies, while Cuomo tended to use objective figures, emphasize seriousness, and focus on prevention policies. This forms the way the public perceives society, and conversely, social situations such as racial discrimination and hate issues also affect and interact with discourse strategies.

본 연구는 한국과 베트남의 장례식 조문 답례 담화에 대한 비교 분석을 목적으로 한다. 그 결과 한국은 고인과 저자의 관계 지향 적인 성격을 지닌 반면 베트남은 고인의 죽음에 대한 사실 정보 전달 의 성격을 지니고 있는 것으로 조사되었다. 또 한국 담화가 조문과 부 의라는 지원 요소에 감사를 하고 있는 것과 달리 베트남 담화에서는 감사한 대상을 나열하는 방식으로 감사를 표현하고 있었고, 양해 구하 기에 있어서도 한국은 찾아뵙지 못한 것에 대한 양해를 구한 반면, 베 트남은 혹시 모를 부주의에 대한 양해를 구하는 차이를 보이는 것으 로 나타났다.

This paper introduces structural metaphor which is a type of conceptual metaphor and proposes another type of conceptual metaphor corresponding to the structural metaphor. It is called reverse structural metaphor since it has externally the same structure as structural metaphor but the property of the target and source domain is reversed. The purpose of this paper is to study and compare these two types of metaphor – structural metaphor and reverse structural metaphor - with specific metaphorical linguistic expressions found in political speeches based on conceptual metaphor theory. Especially, this paper shows that the metaphorical linguistic expressions which have not been explained by the existing structural metaphor and therefore ignored are settled by virtue of reverse structural metaphor. In the process, the characteristics of the reverse structural metaphor to be dealt with as an independent type of conceptual metaphor will be provided.