This study investigates the metaphorical expressions within the fields of health and war in a
corpus of Letters to Shareholders (henceforth LTS) in Spanish compiled within the FinT-esp …

The role of metaphor in political discourse has received significant attention in recent years.
Expanding on the cognitive theory of metaphor developed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) …

Abstract As Lakoff and Johnson (1980: 3) state in Metaphors We Live by,“our ordinary
conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in …

In this book, Chiara Nasti analyses the distribution of metaphor scenarios and patterns in the
public discourse on the European Lisbon Treaty. Her study on a specialized corpus reveals …

This article aims to analyze the use of economic metaphors in the particular case of the
European sovereign debt crisis, by the examination of the public discourse as reflected in …

The development of election slogans in Australia over the past five decades reveals much
about how electioneering practice and political rhetoric have changed. In the 1940s and …

Purpose–Acknowledging the important role of the media in shaping a European public
sphere, the purpose of this paper is to explore how the recent economic crisis is discursively …

There is now a widespread international interest in the analysis of political language and
rhetoric (eg, Beer & De Landtsheer, 2004; Billig, 2003; Bull, 2003; De Landtsheer & …

The perception that the media play a constitutive role in British political life, especially during
general elections, is now very familiar. In television studies, this has been an established …