Essays about: "political metaphor"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 26 essays containing the words political metaphor.
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11. ”This isn’t a gold rush, it’s an arms race" : A critical discourse analysis of 2019’s “streaming war(s)” discourse in television trade press
University essay from Stockholms universitet/JMKAbstract : Streaming services such as Netflix have changed how television is produced and consumed. In 2019, the online video on demand market was topical, with big launches such as Disney+ and Apple TV+. This period in the streaming market was popularized in the press as the “streaming war(s). READ MORE
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12. From Battling to Bridge Building: Metaphors around Covid-19 in German Politics
University essay from Lunds universitet/KognitionsvetenskapAbstract : The present study examines metaphor activity in German politics. It focuses on the question how metaphors contribute to a conceptualisation of the Covid-19 pandemic. The research question is answered with the help of a corpus-based analysis that qualitatively investigates debates in the German parliament between March and June 2020. READ MORE
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13. Metaphors of populists – A cognitive linguistic study of conceptual metaphors in political speeches by Donald J. Trump and Nigel Farage
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudierAbstract : The purpose of this thesis is to explore the use of conceptual metaphors in political speeches by Donald Trump and Nigel Farage. Conceptual metaphor theory is applied as the framework for the study. Metaphorical linguistic expressions are identified with help of the method Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP). READ MORE
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14. A climate for metaphors : an inquiry into the cognitive and discursive power of climate change metaphors, supported by a diachronic critical metaphor analysis of opinion articles published in three US newspapers
University essay from Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : The news media remains as one of the most important sources of societal uptake of climate change information. Its potential to covertly shape public perception and attitudes regarding climate change is therefore considerable but difficult to assess. READ MORE
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15. Retaining or losing the conceptual metaphor : A study on institutional translation of metaphors in political discourse from English into Swedish and Spanish
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Tolk- och översättarinstitutetAbstract : The translation of metaphors has been analyzed and discussed for several decades, but there are not many multilingual studies that examine how metaphors are translated. The present study takes a cognitive approach to metaphor and investigates how translators at the European Commission handle metaphorical expressions and the underlying conceptual metaphors in political discourse. READ MORE