Petrica, Monica (2011): Cognitive metaphors in political discourse in Malta and the case of EU-membership debate. Dissertation, LMU München: Faculty for Languages and Literatures |
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Abstract
The present thesis illustrates how metaphors can offer a glimpse into people’s worldviews; they can enable insights both into individuals’ and nation’s attitudes and beliefs. It is suggested, however, that in order to assure a greater validity of results a flexible methodological approach needs to be adopted, or, more precisely, a combination of methods is almost indispensable. A mixture of methods (corpus, sociocultural information gained from sociological studies and questionnaire) was applied in order to seek authentic ways of conceptualisation of the EU, but also ways of conceptualising of prevalent source domains in the EU debate.
Item Type: | Theses (Dissertation, LMU Munich) |
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Keywords: | Variation in Metaphor Use, Conceptual Metaphors, European Union, Cultural Linguistics |
Subjects: | 300 Social sciences 300 Social sciences > 320 Political science |
Faculties: | Faculty for Languages and Literatures |
Language: | English |
Date of oral examination: | 14. February 2011 |
1. Referee: | Schmid, Hans-Jörg |
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Signature of the printed copy: | 0001/UMC 21868 |
ID Code: | 16603 |
Deposited On: | 27. Feb 2014 09:52 |
Last Modified: | 23. Oct 2020 23:59 |