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Jan 1, 2010 · Shen and Balaban (1999) found, more specifically, that non-signaled metaphors in journalism, i.e. those that are not strategically introduced in advance as the lynchpin of an argument, typically go with mixed clusters rather than coherent ones. Metaphor clusters fulfill three kinds of functions.
- Michael Kimmel
- 2010
Shen and Balaban (1999) found, more specifically, that non-signaled metaphors in journalism, i.e. those that are not strategically introduced in advance as the lynchpin of an argument, typically go with mixed clusters rather than coherent ones. Metaphor clusters fulfill three kinds of functions.
- Michael Kimmel
Metaphors in the British Journalism Review 2011-2014 Martin Conboy and Minyao Tang Journalism has long relied on certain core metaphors in order to express its claims to social and political usefulness. The deployment of metaphors to describe a practice that in contrast asserts its truth-telling and plain prose style is in itself interesting.
Jan 10, 2012 · The article presents an analysis of journalists’ everyday language, in particular of their everyday metaphors, and what these metaphors show about the given suppositions behind the journalists’ conceptualisation of newswork.
- Gitte Gravengaard
- 2012
May 3, 2016 · Journalism has long relied on certain core metaphors in order to express its claims to social and political usefulness. The deployment of metaphors to describe a practice that in contrast asserts its truth-telling and plain prose style is in itself interesting. Since metaphor acts as a powerful indicator of presuppositions it can be used to ...
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 .
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The deployment of metaphors to describe a practice that in contrast asserts its truth-telling and plain prose style is in itself interesting. Metaphor can be used to explore contemporary British journalists’ own sense of identity as it provides a set of tacit assumptions about how journalism functions as well as their own definitions of their practice.
