When history becomes a metaphor for the present and the future: recent far-right discourse about immigration in the UK
Based on conceptual and discourse-oriented metaphor theory, the article argues that British far-right discourse increasingly conceptualizes immigration with the help of martial rather than “fluid” or “container” metaphors. Metaphors such as “conquest”, “colonization”, and “ethnic cleansing” operate...
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| Language: | English |
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Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3
2014-01-01
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| Series: | Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/lexis/219 |