Figurative framing, in the form of metaphorical expressions, is especially effective in carrying
conceptual content on an issue and affecting public opinion. One topic that has been heavily …

The number of people fleeing to Europe increased dramatically in 2015. Each day,
countless reports on the refugee issue were published prominently on every channel. The …

Migration-related events have received overwhelming attention in mainstream media
coverage within Europe in recent years. This study investigates the metaphorical framing of …

The present paper undertakes a corpus-based investigation to reconstruct the linguistic
imagery used in the conceptualization of migrants in Hungarian public discourse in 2014 …

As the geopolitical situation changes, it is necessary to discuss how politics is structured by
metaphor in the context of recent social phenomena, such as the European migrant crisis …

When the first boats sank off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy, the debate about refugees and
migration started to become one of the most widely discussed issues in mass media and …

The use of metaphors in the refugee discourse since 2015 has so far mostly been explored
in newspapers in different EU countries. In this study, we combine linguistic discourse …

This article investigates the dynamic processes taking place in relation to the choice of
specific fixed metaphors which function as framing devices by rival politicians to reinforce …

Sažetak Applying MIPVU (Steen et al., 2010) to the corpus of media articles about the
European migrant crisis in the period from August 2015 until March 2016 in English and …

Since summer 2011, European politicians and journalists alike have commented on the
economic crisis and the related financial crisis in the euro zone, and rescue packages and …