Theoretical Framework REVIEW OF LITERATURE
This study used Merriam Webster Dictionary, the thesaurus in English Oxford Living dictionary, and Cambridge dictionary to find the component
semantic of words. The distinctive features in the semantic component that exist in the metaphorical expression but missing in its related words became hint upon
what Khamenei wanted to emphasize to his society. Then, the disctinctive features were used to determine the SOURCE
DOMAIN and the TARGET DOMAIN of that metaphorical expression by using the Conceptual Metaphor Theory CMT. This process was conducted by finding
out set of correspondences mappings between the SOURCE DOMAIN and the TARGET DOMAIN that fit with the metaphorical expression. The SOURCE
DOMAIN and the TARGET DOMAIN were called metaphorical concept. After analyzing the metaphorical expressions and its metaphorical
concept, CDA was applied to assess how the metaphorical expressions constructed the ideologies imposed by Khamenei to Iranian society. CDA
believed in the use of particular language expression are under the strategy and interest of particular actor under particular context. In this case, the use of
metaphorical expression was within the interest of Khamenei in talking about nuclear agreement issue to his society. Thus, by using the three dimensional
framework proposed by Fairclough an integated analysis of text, processes of text production, consumption, and distribution, sociocultural anaysis of the discursive
events and relating it with the metaphorical expression plus the SOURCE DOMAIN, the hidden ideologies of Khamenei were revealed.
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