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Constructing the welfare state in the British press : boundaries and metaphors in political discourse / Ma�gorzata Paprota.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Bloomsbury advances in critical discourse studiesPublisher: London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021Copyright date: �2021Description: 1 online resource (x, 224 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781350125346
  • 1350125342
  • 9781350125339
  • 1350125334
  • 1350125326
  • 9781350125322
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Constructing the welfare state in the British press.DDC classification:
  • 070.4/49361650941090512 23
LOC classification:
  • JC479 .P37 2021
Online resources: Summary: "Analysing political discourse in the British press during a time of crisis and austerity, this book examines how the concept of the welfare state has been constructed between 2008 and 2015. A corpus from four British newspapers from across the political spectrum is brought together to investigate the political debate on its evaluation and the ambiguity about its exact definition. A discourse-historical approach is used to establish what the welfare state is, and conceptual metaphor theory is then used to explore its figurative conceptualisations"-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Analysing political discourse in the British press during a time of crisis and austerity, this book examines how the concept of the welfare state has been constructed between 2008 and 2015. A corpus from four British newspapers from across the political spectrum is brought together to investigate the political debate on its evaluation and the ambiguity about its exact definition. A discourse-historical approach is used to establish what the welfare state is, and conceptual metaphor theory is then used to explore its figurative conceptualisations"-- Provided by publisher

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