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This paper explores the use of linguistic and conceptual metaphors employed to describe the material and economic aspects in the discourses centered on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Multiple metaphors are found in the data which are examined through a corpus analysis. The cognitive linguistics provides the background to this study where the notion of conceptual metaphors as proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) has been used as the main theoretical mainstay. The data comprises the Pakistani and Chinese news articles and reports. The study mainly focuses on thirteen conceptual metaphors developed through the presence of their lexical realizations. The journey metaphor gains the highest frequency with 2721/7192 concordance hits, among a range of other metaphors such as war, human being, up/down, weather, tool/device, building, game, family, wealth, history and science. The study uncovers the truth about linguistic metaphors and their diverse applicability, as rhetorical devices to influence, motivate and sway the readers engaged with an economic text. Besides, metaphors and metaphoric expressions in economic writings are also used for the communicative functions of clarification, personification, objectification, opposition, evaluation, presuppositions, descriptions, and comparisons.

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