Essays about: "Critical Metaphor Analysis"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 18 essays containing the words Critical Metaphor Analysis.

1. 11. Treacherous Words : How Climate Change Conspiracy Sceptics use Conceptual Metaphors to Extinguish our Future

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Ida-Maria Chvostek; [2019]
   Keywords : United States of America; conservative think tanks; critical metaphor analysis; IPCC; framing;

   Abstract : This study examined the metaphors used in contemporary American conservative discourse between October 2018 and March 2019, focusing on material published by conservative think tanks (CTTs) and tweets made by Republican senators in relation to climate change. For the CTTs, a domain-specific corpus (36,388 words) was compiled and a smaller corpus (3967 words) was assembled based on 135 tweets. READ MORE

3. 12. Reviewing the Rhetoric of Donald Trump's Twitter of the 2016 Presidential Election

   University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

   Author : Chang Liu; [2017]
   Keywords : Political communication; Social networks; Twitter; Rhetoric; Metaphor; Trump;

   Abstract : With the development of science and technology, political communication is not only through television, radio and other traditional media in 21st century and political communication through the Internet become an inevitable trend. It is worth noting that Twitter has become a popular tool in political campaigning. READ MORE

4. 13. Rape - A Love Story? Representations of Rape in Disgrace, Cereus Blooms at Night, Atonement, and Rape: A Love Story

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

   Author : Shuna Blankenhaus; [2017]
   Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the representation of rape in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999), Shani Motoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night (1996), Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001), and Joyce Carol Oates’ Rape: A Love Story (2003). READ MORE

5. 14. Persuasion in Rhetoric : A Critical Metaphor Analysis of the Use of Metaphor in Pro-war Political Speeches

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Shaymaa Esmail; [2016]
   Keywords : Cognitive Linguistics; Critical Metaphor Analysis; rhetoric; metaphor; persuasion;

   Abstract : This paper is investigating how metaphors are used in political speeches to achieve persuasion. By analyzing three speeches dealing with the 2003 Iraq war delivered by Bush, Blair and Howard, I try to find out the similarities and differences in how metaphors are constructed; how they are used as a persuasive technique; and lastly if the different military contribution of the three countries affected how metaphors are constructed. READ MORE

6. 15. Finding The Women's Voice

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

   Author : Sandra Komuhiimbo; [2016]
   Keywords : Gender; Feminism; Media; Radio; Women s Radio; Voice; Women s Voice; Civic Engagement; Women s Movement; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : “There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women,” Kofi Annan (UN News Center, 2005). The empowerment of women takes different forms such as pursuit of education, participation in political activities and representation in leadership, equal employment opportunities and wages, access to health care and ability to make decisions on personal reproductive health, economic bargaining and decision making power and access to all public social services among others. READ MORE