Another example of metaphor in the given sentence is ‘to remove barriers', which emphasizes that there are distinctive features which prevent the EU politics from expanding. T hose are pragmatic and pictorial functions of metaphor. H ere ‘green' loses its initial connotation, since it describes a realia where ‘green' means eco-friendly. W hat is more, let us look at the use of colour lexeme in «the EU launched negotiations to remove barriers to trade and investment in ‘green' goods, services and technologies» (2015: 56).
T he use of the first case can be explained by author’s eagerness to vividly show the increase or improvement in a situation: ‘It sheds light on those seeking to influence policymaking in the EU institutions and lists the issues' (2015: 88). The similar tendency is characteristic of the collocation ‘in touch' as in ‘Getting in touch with the EU' (2015: 91).į inally, metaphors of lightdarkness and colours are of high significance when represent politic discourse. It has recently become so widely accepted that came into use in various types of discourses, namely politic discourse: ‘within the agreed deadline' (2015: 87). Metaphors commonly reflect realia and peculiarities of the culture of the particular language, for instance, ‘a deadline' which means the day and time by which the project or work is to be finished. The second case illustrates the situation a term is created with the use of metaphor.