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"Battered Hero" or "Innocent Victim"? A Comparative Study of Metaphors for Euro Trading in British and German Financial Reporting.
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Charteris-Black, Jonathan; Musolff, Andreas – English for Specific Purposes, 2003
This corpus-based study compares the use of metaphor in the reporting of the Euro in the English and German financial press during a period of turbulent financial trading. While the approach to metaphor is broadly cognitive linguistic, metaphors are identified using two criteria; a broad semantic one that includes cases of reification and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Finance Occupations