Publications

Publication details [#44717]

Charteris-Black, Jonathan. 2006. Britain as a container: immigration metaphors in the 2005 election campaign. Discourse & Society 17 (5) : 563–581.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

election manifesto | immigrant | metaphor | political language

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines how metaphors add to the formation of legitimacy in UK right-wing political communication on immigration policy in the British 2005 election campaign.