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Publication details [#57354]

Hellín-García, María José. 2013. Legitimization and delegitimization strategies on terrorism: A corpus-based analysis of building metaphors. Pragmatics 23 (2) : 301–330.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

metaphor, processing of | political language

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper discusses how Building Metaphors in the political discourse of the former Spanish president Zapatero function as legitimization and delegitimization strategies, opposing Government’s anti-terrorism's solid ground and terrorism’s lack of foundation.