The rising prominence of corpus-driven approaches in linguistic studies has sparked a growing interest in applying a corpus-based approach to metaphor analysis in the political domain (Charteris-Black, 2004Ahrens, 2009;Deignan, 1999Deignan, , 2005Semino, 2006Semino, , 2008Deignan and Semino, 2010).
the Strict Father model and the Nurturant Patent model) and found support for Lakoff's (1996Lakoff's ( , 2002 hypothesis that Democrats and Republicans view the world differently.