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Publication details [#64844]

Hart, Christopher. 2018. ‘Riots engulfed the city’: An experimental study investigating the legitimating effects of fire metaphors in discourses of disorder. Discourse & Society 29 (3) : 279–298.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognitive linguistics | critical discourse analysis | discourse | frame | metaphor

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper outlines two experiments examining the justifying framing results of fire metaphors in disarray discourses. It displays that fire images and fire metaphors by lack of rivalling images ease subsidy for police employment of water cannon in reply to social disquiet.