Utku Bozdag
List of John Benjamins publications in which Utku Bozdag is involved.
Articles
2027 Chapter 6. Geopolitics meets journalism: The capital for government metonymy in US news media New Vistas in Research on Metaphor and Metonymy: Their contexts and interaction across discourse types and modalities, Kiełtyka, Robert, Mario Brdar, Marcin Kudła and Goran Milić (eds.), pp. 164–181 | Chapter
In political journalism, capital cities often represent administrations through the capital for government metonymy. This metonymy is more prominent for countries seen as allies or threats, and less for neutral governments. However, it remains unclear whether the capital for government metonymy… read more
2026 Chapter 11. All work and no play make the weekend frame go away? Metonymic micro-variation in online news articles Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach, Brdar Szabó, Rita and Mario Brdar (eds.), pp. 308–324 | Chapter
Research indicates that the capital for government metonymy appears more frequently in news articles published at weekends as compared to weekdays. This is attributed to the time is space conceptual metaphor: journalists approach the events they report on more holistically towards the end of the… read more