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Jan 11, 2021 · To examine what type of metaphors journalists use in storytelling, Lawson interviewed 16 journalists covering humanitarian crises, The interview participants were found from a research project on how five digital news outlets covered crises. A corpus of 978 articles was studied and the interviewees had authored at least one.
May 3, 2016 · Since metaphor acts as a powerful indicator of presuppositions it can be used to reify complex public discourses, reducing them to common-sense thinking. This paper explores what metaphors have been used in association with journalism in the pages of the British Journalism Review since the closure of the News of the World .
- Martin Conboy, Minyao Tang
- 2016
KEYWORDS: metaphor, British Journalism Review, journalistic identity, hacks, Leveson Introduction Ambivalence of journalists towards their field of employment is nothing new and can be read, laced within many contemporary accounts. For a recent, striking example we can read Robert Peston, the BBC’s economics editor, an impressively
Sep 17, 2014 · And what is typical of metaphor use in newspapers compared to other kinds of discourse? A corpus-analytic approach can help answer these questions by revealing patterns of metaphor use in newspaper texts. This paper presents a corpus-linguistic quantitative analysis of metaphors in a set of British newspapers.
- Tina Krennmayr
- 2015
Jan 24, 2024 · To learn from metaphor, consider other writers' use of metaphor, explore metaphors used by other fields and disciplines, and reflect on the metaphors you use in your narrative journalism.
Aug 30, 2020 · The use of metaphorical frames does not entail a one-size-fits-all approach. Studies indicate that domain experts and journalists (often novices to the specific new technology) differ in their metaphor use. Academics (domain experts) generally use fewer metaphors than journalists (Skorczynska and Deignan, 2006; Steen et al., 2010).
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metaphorical language use by real people in real situations of use is only a recent phenomenon (Cameron, 2003; Charteris-Black, 2004; Cienki & Müller, 2008; Deignan, 2005; Koller, 2004; Semino, 2002). When working with real language data, it is important to consider not just the language but its context. A text does not exist in a vacuum