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Nickels, Edelmira L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Linguistics research has demonstrated the commonness and functions of metaphors to carry cognitive frames, which influence the way people understand and act on information. This work conveys the results of three analyses employed to describe cognitive frames: forms of linguistic metaphors used, functions of systematic metaphors that emerged, and…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Figurative Language, Language Usage, Politics