Constructing The Welfare State In The British Press: Boundaries And Metaphors In Political Discourse (Bloomsbury Advances In Critical Discourse Studies)

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--

• • Author: Malgorzata Paprota
• • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• • Publication Date: Jul 28, 2022
• • Number of Pages: 234 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1350202525
• • ISBN-13: 9781350202528