Publications
Publication details [#14496]
Straehle, Carolyn, Gilbert Weiss, Ruth Wodak, Peter Muntigl and Maria Sedlak. 1999. Struggle as metaphor in European Union discourses on unemployment. Discourse & Society 10 (1) : 67–99. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
ISBN
0957-9265
Journal WWW
Annotation
It is shown how internal and external European Union discourses (viz. speeches and Presidency Conclusions) affect representations of unemployment as a metaphor of struggle and how these representations serve legitimizing functions in EU discourses.