This paper investigates the discourse of a group of workers talking about the house organ of their enterprise and focuses on the metaphors they produce to express the conflicts arising out of the relationship between the situation at work and the way it is presented in the house organ.The study was grounded on theories that deal with metaphor as a conceptual phenomenon (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980.) and with language from a pragmatic point of view (Mey, 1987). The data was analysed from a qualitative perspective. Our aim is to look at the metaphors the workers use and to verify how these metaphors express the relationship established in situation at work.
metaphors; house organ; work; conflicts