A cross-linguistic analysis of conceptual complexes in the domain of economics.

Over the past two decades, the relationship between metaphor and culture has been an important object of study in Cognitive Linguistics, especially due to the impact of globalisation on our everyday living. This impact has particularly affected the field of economy where figurative language is pervasive. Within this research context, the present article aims at exploring not only the role of metaphor in economics which has been the interest of a huge amount of studies, but also the role of conceptual complexes in the languages of two historically connected countries which nevertheless differ significantly in their economic development: Britain and Pakistan. To this end, metaphors and conceptual complexes have been analysed in Urdu and English. The analysis has proved in cross-linguistic terms the intricacies of conceptual material in the field of economics and the descriptive and explanatory adequacy of the account of conceptual complexes mentioned above [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]