Killer, Thief or Companion? A Corpus-Based Study of Dementia Metaphors in UK Tabloids.
This article examines the metaphors that are used to represent dementia in British tabloid newspapers over a ten-year period (2010–2019). The analysis takes a corpus-based approach to metaphor identification and analysis, utilizing in particular the corpus linguistic technique of collocation analysi...
| Published in: | Metaphor & Symbol Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 213 - 231 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul-Sep2023
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