This book shows how accessible communication, and especially easy-to-understand languages, should be designed in order to become instruments of inclusion. It examines two …
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 …
J Mercille - New Political Economy, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines Irish mainstream media coverage of the housing bubble that burst in 2007 and plunged Ireland into economic and financial crisis. It is shown that news …
A Borriello - Discourse & Society, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The Eurozone crisis and the remarkable convergence of national governments towards austerity policies draw scholars' attention to the discursive strategies that they have used in …
The article reports a comparative study of the representation of migration in media from three countries (Greece, Italy, and Turkey), over 2001–2018 period. Analysis showed the salience …
The European economic crisis has been ongoing since 2008 and while austerity has spread over the continent, it has failed to revive economies. The media have played an important …
C Burgers, KYR de Lavalette, GJ Steen - Journal of Pragmatics, 2018 - Elsevier
While classical theories on rhetoric cluster figurative devices like metaphor, hyperbole, and irony under the encompassing category of tropes, current theories and research typically …
Diachronic studies on metaphor use in public discourse have primarily focused on Inner Circle English and European languages. However, the usage patterns of specific …