Chapter One Introduction 1 1.1 Motivation and Theoretical Background 1 1.2 Research Questions 3 1.3 Significance of the Study 4 1.4 Organization of the Thesis 5 Chapter Two Literature Review 6 2.1 Conceptual metaphor Theory 6 2.2 Metaphor in Political Language 10 2.3 Empirical Studies 11 2.3.1 Pavlíková (2021) 11 2.3.2 Lenard and Ćosić (2017) 12 2.3.3 Wang (2020) 14 2.3.4 Jheng (2020) 14 2.4 Summary of Chapter Two 16 Chapter Three Methodology 18 3.1 Data Collection 18 3.2 Metaphor Identification 21 3.3 Summary of Chapter Three 22 Chapter Four Results and Discussion 24 4.1 Results of Data Analysis 24 4.1.1 Mayoral Candidate Speeches(Speech A to Speech C) 25 4.1.1.1 Kaohsiung is the target domain 25 4.1.1.2 Election is the target domain 30 4.1.1.3 Kuo-Yu Han is the target domain 34 4.1.1.4 Democratic Progressive Party is the target domain 35 4.1.1.5 Short Summary 37 4.1.2 Presidential Candidate Speeches(Speech D to Speech F) 39 4.1.2.1 Hualien is the target domain 40 4.1.2.2 A government is the target domain 42 4.1.2.3 An organization is the target domain 43 4.1.2.4 Kuo-Yu Han is the target domain 44 4.1.2.5 Election is the target domain 45 4.1.2.6 Politics is the target domain 47 4.1.2.7 Short Summary 48 4.2 Discussion of Research Questions 49 Chapter Five Conclusion 54 5.1 Summary of Findings 54 5.2 Limitations and Suggestions for Future Studies 57 References 59