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Publication details [#64857]

Bisiada, Mario. 2018. A cross-linguistic analysis of the ‘homework’ metaphor in German and English political discourse. Discourse & Society 29 (6) : 609–628.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | expression1 | manipulating | metaphor | political language

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

An oft met phrase in political discourse across languages is the allegation that somebody has not ‘done their homework’. The phrase is a combination of structural metaphor and understatement. This paper explores its appearance and pragmatic results in American and German newspaper discourse.