THE ‘EURO CRISIS’ IN THE ECONOMIST, DER SPIEGEL AND IL SOLE 24 ORE: A CONTRASTIVE AND CORPUS-BASED STUDY

The article investigates the metaphors that three financial newspapers employ to describe the current Euro crisis, namely: The Economist in English, Der Spiegel in German, e the Italian Il Sole 24 ORE. With the help of the computer program for corpus analysis Wordsmith Tools 6.0 the most frequently recurring conceptual domains and the metaphors that realise them are analysed; a contrastive approach describes how the newspapers describe to their readers the so-called Euro crisis. The results will be contrasted with those already analysed in Cesiri & Colaci (2011) with the aim of understanding whether the metaphors investigated are those already in use to present the global crisis or whether new ones are created purposefully to describe the new aspect of the crisis in Europe.