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Publication details [#1430]

Lakoff, George. 2013. Metaphor and War: The metaphor system used to justify War in the Gulf. Journal of Cognitive Semiotics 4 (2) : 1–17. 17 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

Gulf War

Place, Publisher

Bern: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

ISBN

978-87-995235-0-4

Abstract

The paper explores the metaphors employed by the first Bush administration to talk about the Gult crisis and conflict, arguing that the American involvement was either obscured or put a spin on by the metaphors employed by the American government to justify it.