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Fine, Gary Alan and Lazaros Christoforides. 1991. Dirty Birds, Filthy Immigrants, and the English Sparrow War: Metaphorical Linkage in Constructing Social Problems. Symbolic interaction 14 (4) : 375–394.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Society for the study of symbolic interaction
ISBN
0195-6086

Annotation

This paper uses the example of the Great English Sparrow War to examine the role of metaphorical linkage in the explanation of social problems.