Table of contents
Notes on contributors
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Introduction: Constructing and communicating crisis discourse from cognitive, discursive and sociocultural perspectives
9
Part I.Investigating the language of financial and organisational crisis
21
Chapter 1.Crisis marketing through conceptual ontology in metaphor in financial reporting: “Decision”, “change” … and Right to Information?
23
Chapter 2.From economic crisis to austerity policies through conceptual metaphor: A corpus-based comparison of metaphors of crisis and austerity in the Portuguese press
51
Chapter 3.Responding to organisational misbehaviour: The influence of public frames in social media
87
Part II.Understanding discourses of political conflicts
109
Chapter 4.Turning the heart into a neighbour: (Re)framing Kosovo in Serbian political discourse
111
Chapter 5.“Today, the long Arab winter has begun to thaw”: A corpus-assisted discourse study of conceptual metaphors in political speeches about the Arab
revolutions
137
Chapter 6.Metaphors for protest: The persuasive power of cross-domain mappings on demonstration posters against Stuttgart 21
169
Part III.Studying personal crisis in psychotherapy and narrative
197
Chapter 7.The ‘transformative’ power of metaphor: Assessing its unexplored potential at the crossroads between static and dynamic instances
199
Chapter 8.Co-constructing ‘crisis’ with metaphor: A quantitative approach to metaphor use in psychotherapy talk
231
Chapter 9.Narrative modulation in the storytelling of breast cancer survivors’ transitional experiences
255
Chapter 10.Framing the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): Women’s experiences of changes in the body
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