Political metaphor in world Englishes

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Musolff, Andreas (2020) Political metaphor in world Englishes. World Englishes, 39 (4). pp. 667-680. ISSN 0883-2919

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Abstract

One of the key-metaphor complexes in conceptualizing national identity is that of the nation as a body or a person, especially in English-speaking cultures, as evidenced in the lexicalization of phrases such as body politic, head of state). It has a long conceptual history and still figures prominently in present-day political discourse, both in Inner Circle English-speaking countries and internationally. It thus seems to show considerable semantic stability; however, it is still an open question whether the use of body-or person-based metaphors in international English means that recipients in different cultures understand these metaphors uniformly. This paper discusses empirical evidence from an international interpretation survey that shows substantial variation in conceptualization of the nation as a body, with five main conceptual scenarios (nation as body, nation's territory as body, nation as body part, nation as part of ego and nation as person).

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	language and linguistics,anthropology,sociology and political science,linguistics and language ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1203
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Language and Communication Studies Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Migration Research Network
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	13 Jun 2020 00:07
Last Modified:	21 Jul 2023 09:55
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/75600
DOI:	10.1111/weng.12498

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