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Kowalski, Ewa – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
With its recent entry into the European Union (EU) and the adoption of multiethnic democracy as a national policy, a key challenge for Poland is to transform its education policy and practice in ways that are consistent with multicultural and pluralist values. This paper examines Poland's efforts to address these issues by exploring changes in the…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, International Schools, Textbooks, Democracy
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Zbierska-Sawala, Anna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
Based on recent theoretical insights into the conceptual role of metaphors, this paper investigates figurative discourse in the current conceptualisation of the European Union (EU) in Polish. The metaphorical expressions found in the data present a cline of conventionality, and many of them display processes analysed by Lakoff and Turner (1989),…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, International Cooperation
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Musolff, 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