When history becomes a metaphor for the present and the future: recent far-right discourse about immigration in the UK

Based on conceptual and discourse-oriented metaphor theory, the article argues that British far-right discourse increasingly conceptualizes immigration with the help of martial rather than “fluid” or “container” metaphors. Metaphors such as “conquest”, “colonization”, and “ethnic cleansing” operate...

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Main Author: Anne Friederike Delouis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 2014-01-01
Series:Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/219
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