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Direct linkMusolff, Andreas – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
On the basis of a corpus of British and German press coverage of European Union (EU) politics over the 1990s, the paper analyses uses of the geopolitical HEART metaphor. Over the course of the 1990s, successive British governments promised to work "at" the "heart of Europe". However, no one ever claimed that Britain was…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Foreign Countries, German, Newspapers
