Constructing the Welfare State in the British Press
Boundaries and Metaphors in Political Discourse
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Publication
2022 - Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Language
English
Word Count
56,000 words, Guess
Page Count
224 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781350202528
- ISBN-101350202525
- Better World Books9781350202528
- Open LibraryOL34952017M
Classifications
- LCCJC479P37 2021
Description
"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"--
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