Introduction published in:
Cognitive Perspectives on Political Discourse
Edited by Pascal Fischer and Christoph Schubert
[Journal of Language and Politics 13:2] 2014
► pp. 205–217

Introduction

Cognitive perspectives on political discourse

| University of Bamberg
| University of Vechta
Article outline
  • 1.Conceptual metaphor and the evolution of CL
  • 2.Framing and mental models
  • 3.Categorization and denotational boundaries
  • 4.The contributions to this issue
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 29 August 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.13.2.01fis
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