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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1. Verfasser: Paprota, Malgorzata (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Schriftenreihe:Bloomsbury advances in critical discourse studies.
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 224 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781350125346
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