Publications

Publication details [#49128]

Koller, Veronica and Paul Davidson. 2008. Social exclusion as conceptual and grammatical metaphor: a cross-genre study of British policy-making. Discourse & Society 19 (3) : 307–331.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

hierarchy | metaphor | political system | social status

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study discusses how the interplay of conceptual and grammatical metaphors frames the British 'social exclusion' discourse and orients political thought and action towards inequality reproduction, rather than to transformation.