“A great and beautiful wall”

Demata, Massimiliano

doi:10.1075/jlac.5.2.06dem

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“…Patterns which have received less attention in previous work were also shown to be frequent, particularly commodity, object, and to a lesser extent guest and weight. Those which have been discussed in the literature, but which did not appear in this investigation include metaphors of migrants as parasites (Musolff, 2012), disease (Demata, 2017), weeds (Santa Ana, 1999) and pollutants (Catalano and Fielder, 2018). This does not mean that these metaphors do not occur at all, but that the relationship is not sufficiently stable for them to appear as collocates.…”

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Metaphors of migration over time

Taylor

2021

Discourse & Society

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This paper aims to cast light on contemporary migration rhetoric by integrating historical discourse analysis. I focus on continuity and change in conventionalised metaphorical framings of emigration and immigration in the UK-based Times newspaper from 1800 to 2018. The findings show that some metaphors persist throughout the 200-year time period (liquid, object), some are more recent in conventionalised form (animals, invader, weight) while others dropped out of conventionalised use before returning (commodity, guest). Furthermore, we see that the spread of metaphor use goes beyond correlation with migrant naming choices with both emigrants and immigrants occupying similar metaphorical frames historically. However, the analysis also shows that continuity in metaphor use cannot be assumed to correspond to stasis in framing and evaluation as the liquid metaphor is shown to have been more favourable in the past. A dominant frame throughout the period is migrants as an economic resource and the evaluation is determined by the speaker’s perception of control of this resource.

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Metaphors of migration over time

Taylor

2021

Discourse & Society

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“…The United States-Mexico case has been in a state of ankylosis for some time, which is less worrisome for the moment. After the controversies surrounding the dividing wall between the two countries (Demata, 2017), the issue of sharing water from the Colorado and the Rio Grande-known as the rio Bravo del Norte in Mexico, is amplifying the tensions between the two riparians (Figure 3). The Colorado River, a state in the United States [260,837 km 2 ], also refers to a river originating in the Rocky Mountains of the state of Colorado-more precisely in the Rocky Mountains National Park, crossing 5 American states [Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California], providing drinking water to more than 40 million people, stretching for 2334 km before ending its course in Mexico and flowing into the sea (Butler et al, 2021).…”

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Water: A Major Stake of Conflicts in the Twenty-First Century

Makengo¹,

Mimbale²,

Mbutamuntu³

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JSS

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“…For example, the element of populism was found in Trump's discourse (Chilton, 2017;Montgomery, 2017;Demata, 2017). Moreover, Trump's controversial comments on racism, immigration and Islamophobia have also been topics of interest (Terrill, 2017;Demata, 2017;Waikar, 2018). Apart from that, many scholars have directed their attention beyond Trump, providing an overview of Trump's uniqueness from other US politicians in the 2016 election.…”

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A Typical Politician vs. a Lunatic Businessman: Different Language Styles of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

Zhao¹,

Wu²,

Zhang³

2020

IJEL

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The victory of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US election shocked the media and the public around the world. In an attempt to understand the linguistic differences between Clinton and Trump that might explain the unexpected result, both quantitative and qualitative methods were used in the research to analyze their particular language features in the speeches and different strategies employed in their debates. The quantitative result showed that Trump’s language was not as rich as Clinton’s. And in terms of the qualitative analysis, it was found that Clinton tended to use the pronoun you more than Trump and that both of them were inclined to make frequent use of we in their campaign speeches. As for debate strategies, Trump, compared with Clinton, was more likely to interrupt and repeat for the purpose of showing power and leaving the audience a stronger impression. The research offers insights into Trump’s and Clinton’s linguistic features and debate strategies that might account for Trump’s victory in the election.

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“A great and beautiful wall”

Cited by 21 publications

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Metaphors of migration over time

Metaphors of migration over time

Water: A Major Stake of Conflicts in the Twenty-First Century

A Typical Politician vs. a Lunatic Businessman: Different Language Styles of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

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