Representations of Ebola and its victims in liberal American newspapers

Combining critical discourse analysis and the cognitive theory of metaphor, the study analyses hard news on Ebola from two American newspapers of a liberal political orientation, The New York Times and The New York Daily News, to investigate metaphoric representations of the disease and portrayals o...

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Main Author: Trčková Dita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra 2015-12-01
Series:Topics in Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2015-0009