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Publication details [#61368]

Piata, Anna. 2016. When metaphor becomes a joke: Metaphor journeys from political ads to internet memes. Journal of Pragmatics 106 : 39–56.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Using three political ads from the Greek 2015 election campaign, each one reposing upon a distinct framework of the journey metaphor, and their witty representations in internet memes dispersed over social media platforms, this study demonstrates that both metaphor and humor assist the specific rhetorical aims of election campaign advertizing and political satire: metaphor via the evaluative frames it elicits and humor via its goals and its function as a way of criticism.