The Polarity of War Metaphors in Sports News: A Corpus-Informed Analysis

War metaphors have long been used in sports news reporting. In reality, war are also commonly daily conversations. The wide usage of reporting is because the two domains (i.e. and sports) comparable to each other, thereby enabling use terms describe domain. Following a corpus-informed approach, strength modifiers (adjectives) reversing or retaining polarity subsequently affecting sentiment was examined. Sports from BBC News, Malay Mail Online Malaysian News Corpus, which amounted 2.3 million words texts, were subjected corpus analysis. UCREL Semantic Analysis System identified possible corpora Collocate 2.0 locate adjectives their respective collocates. Findings indicated that writers do not necessarily as tool negate positive intensify negative sentiments. Instead, collocated with particular resulted good balance reported polarity, neutral tone.