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Publication details [#58662]
Otten, Tina. 2014. The financial crisis in the German and English press: Metaphorical structures in the media coverage on Greece, Spain and Italy. Discourse & Society 25 (4) : 424–445.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper underlines the evolution of the German media’s purport on the Greek financial crisis over time, and concentrates on metaphorical language use in the news coverage of this crisis by three akin international news magazines: SPIEGEL (Germany), The Economist (the UK) and TIME (the USA), opposing the depiction of Greece with the portrayal of larger owing European countries such as Spain and Italy.