The strategic use of metaphor in political discourse: Critical Metaphor Analysis
Russian Journal of LinguisticsPolitical discourse is increasingly shaped by crisis events that demand immediate rhetorical responses from leaders. While metaphors have been extensively studied in political communication, understanding their strategic deployment during crisis moments ...
Tito Dimas Atmawijaya
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Critical Analysis of Policy Making and Policy Implementation Metaphor: Presenting Alternative Metaphors [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat, 2022 An examination of the views of great thinkers such as Bourdieu, Foucault, and Habermas suggest that we live in a language age. Thus, questions of language and power are increasingly raised in politics and the public sphere, but have received less ...
mohsen nobakht +2 more
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A Critical Metaphor Analysis of Heroic Myth in the Discourse of Kwame Nkrumah
Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, 2020 This paper examines how Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-African leader, utilizes metaphor to simultaneously construct heroes and villains, protagonists and antagonists, forming part of an ideological mechanism that portrays him as a valiant leader and a ...
Mark Nartey
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(Mega-) metaphor in the text-worlds of economic crisis: towards a situated view of metaphor in discourse [PDF]
, 2013 Building on Werth’s (1994) notion of ‘megametaphor’, in this thesis I examine the discourse-level conceptual effects of metaphor in five op-ed articles about the 2008 British financial crisis.
Browse, Sam
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Using a semantic annotation tool for the analysis of metaphor in discourse. [PDF]
, 2008 This paper describes the application of semantic annotation software for analysing metaphor in corpora of different genres. In particular, we outline three projects analysing RELIGION and POLITICS metaphors in corporate mission statements, the WAR ...
Hardie, Andrew +3 more
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Metaphor as categorisation: a connectionist implementation [PDF]
, 2001 A key issue for models of metaphor comprehension is to explain how in some metaphorical comparison , only some features of B are transferred to A. The features of B that are transferred to A depend both on A and on B.
Thomas, Michael S.C., Mareschal, Denis
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A linguistic study of Islamic religious discourse: conceptual metaphors in the prophetic tradition [PDF]
, 2011 PhDThis study examines the emergence of metaphorical language in the Prophet Muhammad’s sayings and tradition. It principally argues that the selection of metaphors in the Prophetic discourse is chiefly governed by the rhetorical aim of persuasion ...
El-Sharif, Ahmad
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Metaphor and metonymy in euphemisms in Queen Elizabeth II's official statements [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u PrištiniThough well recognised as devices used in the formation of euphemisms, metaphor and metonymy as such remain under-researched in current literature. Our study examines the use of euphemistic language in the official speeches and statements of the former ...
Janićijević Marko M. +1 more
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Comparing COVID-19 metaphors in Chinese and English social media with critical metaphor analysis
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Metaphors extracted from COVID-19-related online texts offer a unique lens for examining how individuals perceive the pandemic. Users from distinct linguistic backgrounds may select varying source domains to discuss COVID-19, with these choices influenced by multiple factors.
Qingshu Xu, Qingshu Xu
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Metaphorical Conceptualization of the Russia- Ukraine War in Selected editorials in The Guardian, and Global Times [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Al-FayūmConceptual metaphor is frequently employed in newspapers as it is seen as a cognitive tool that helps represent and make sense of experiences. This study compares how conceptual metaphors are used in editorials from The Guardian and Global Times on the ...
Shereen Elnahal
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