Caricature and Metaphor About the Euro Crisis in the European Economic Press

This article analyzes the role of metaphor, one of the most important rhetorical figures of the economic language, which serves to explain abstract concepts with physical images. The main conceptual metaphors of economy are applied to the description of frequent linguistic metaphors used in the English press, in caricatures and headlines, to discuss the current economic crisis. It is carried out an economic analysis of that crisis that serves, at the same time, to apply and translate those metaphors into Spanish, to find out the semantic connotations conveyed by them, as well as the similarities and differences between the two linguistic conceptions in this respect.