METAPHOR IN (ARABIC-INTO-ENGLISH) TRANSLATION WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO METAPHORICAL CONCEPTS AND EXPRESSIONS IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE ABDULLA NASSER KHALIFA AL-HARRASI Doctor of Philosophy ASTON UNIVERSITY March 2001 The copy of the thesis has been supplied on condition that anyone who consults it is understood to recognise that its copyright rests with its author and that no quotation from the thesis and no information derived from it may be published without proper acknowledgement. 1