Constructing the welfare state in the British press: boundaries and metaphors in political discourse

"Analysing political discourse in the British press during a time of crisis and austerity, this book examines how the concept of the welfare state has been constructed between 2008 and 2015. A corpus from four British newspapers from across the political spectrum is brought together to investig...

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Main Author: Paprota, Małgorzata (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Bloomsbury Academic 2021
Series:Bloomsbury advances in critical discourse studies
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Summary:"Analysing political discourse in the British press during a time of crisis and austerity, this book examines how the concept of the welfare state has been constructed between 2008 and 2015. A corpus from four British newspapers from across the political spectrum is brought together to investigate the political debate on its evaluation and the ambiguity about its exact definition. A discourse-historical approach is used to establish what the welfare state is, and conceptual metaphor theory is then used to explore its figurative conceptualisations"--
Item Description:Bevorzugte Informationsquelle: Landingpage (Bloomsbury Collections), da weder Titelblatt noch Impressum vorhanden
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 223 Seiten)
ISBN:9781350125346
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DOI:10.5040/9781350125346

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