This paper examines the influence of cultural display rules on how high-status individuals, such as political leaders, publicly express anger. Specifically, it focuses on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has been the Turkish leader since 2003. The study aims to understand the extent to which Erdoğan’s expression of anger is influenced by cultural display rules, the religious context stemming from his conservative electoral support, and his position as a long-term populist political leader. Using extended conceptual metaphor theory (ECMT) supported by corpus-assisted discourse analysis, the paper seeks to identify the contextual factors that shape anger expressions (both direct and metaphorical) in the political discourse of a populist leader in a collectivist culture. By comparing the conceptualization of ascribed anger and inscribed anger expressions, the analysis reveals that Erdoğan’s discourse presents two distinct scenarios for expressing anger toward ‘us’ and ‘others’. Additionally, it demonstrates how anger is strategically employed in culture-specific ways to navigate the challenges posed by conflicting contextual factors.

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土耳其政治话语中愤怒的表现：文化规范与愤怒的政治表现之间的艰难选择

本文探讨了文化展示规则对政治领导人等地位较高的个人如何公开表达愤怒的影响。具体而言，它重点关注自 2003 年以来一直担任土耳其领导人的雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安。该研究旨在了解埃尔多安的愤怒表达在多大程度上受到文化展示规则、源于他的保守派选举支持的宗教背景以及他的言论的影响。长期民粹主义政治领导人的地位。本文利用语料库辅助话语分析支持的扩展概念隐喻理论（ECMT），试图识别集体主义文化中民粹主义领导人的政治话语中塑造愤怒表达（直接和隐喻）的语境因素。通过比较归因愤怒和铭刻愤怒表达的概念化，分析揭示了埃尔多安的话语呈现了两种不同的场景来表达对“我们”和“其他人”的愤怒。此外，它还展示了如何以特定文化的方式战略性地利用愤怒来应对冲突的背景因素带来的挑战。