One of the main tasks of critical discourse analysis is to raise the awareness of the readers about the relationship between language and ideology. Discourses which are used by social institutions tend to be ideologically bound. Thus, a critical discourse analyst should show the ideological basis of discourse through linguistic devices. Since metaphors occur in language, it is an appropriate tool to identify ideology with. The choice of different metaphors in a text by language users could indicate the dominant ideology of them. Contrary to this, different ideologies may produce different metaphors to support their basic beliefs. In this paper, the theory of Conceptual Metaphor and Teun Van Dijks theory of ideology are introduced as the basis of the research. Then, it is indicated that how by formulationg the conceptual metaphors of a text, the hidden ideology behind the text might be revealed.
