Reform has recently become an imperative topic in Jordanian politics. After waiting long for tangible political and economic programs to be initiated by political parties, King Abdullah II of Jordan introduced his vision of reform. Reform is a priority, and this is plainly reflected in King Abdullah II’s “reformist” discourse. This paper adopts a critical linguistic approach to metaphor analysis to study King Abdullah II’s employment of metaphorical language to accentuate his authority, dominance, and ideologies in the implementation of a vision of reform. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of a corpus of King Abdullah II’s discourse demonstrates extensive use of metaphors from the conceptual domains of path, war (and conflicts) to conce...
In the late 1970s, linguists such as George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and Michael Reddy began to realize...
Conceptual metaphors continue to receive scholarly attention from discourse analysts taking politica...
Politics is marked by power play among the politicians themselves and between the politicians and th...
Reform has recently become an imperative topic in Jordanian politics. After waiting long for tangibl...
The present study investigates metaphor conceptualisation in political speeches delivered by Abdulla...
King Abdullah II ascended the Jordanian throne in 1999 and has ruled the kingdom for the first two d...
Metaphors represent one of the major problems a translator may encounter. A number of studies have b...
Some translators do not pay sufficient attention to the figures of speech, particularly metaphor and...
The political reforms announced by the Jordanian regime in 2012 were widely welcomed on the internat...
The common sense is that each time you revise a discourse you can find new points behind the lines. ...
This article investigates a speech delivered by King Abdullah of Jordan at Oxford University. The st...
This paper presents some preliminary results of a project concerned with identifying and analyzing a...
The process of political reforms taking place in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia can not be separated fr...
In the late 1970s, linguists such as George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and Michael Reddy began to realize...
The cognitive and affective appeal of metaphor exploits subconscious discernment that is aroused non...
In the late 1970s, linguists such as George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and Michael Reddy began to realize...
Conceptual metaphors continue to receive scholarly attention from discourse analysts taking politica...
Politics is marked by power play among the politicians themselves and between the politicians and th...
Reform has recently become an imperative topic in Jordanian politics. After waiting long for tangibl...
The present study investigates metaphor conceptualisation in political speeches delivered by Abdulla...
King Abdullah II ascended the Jordanian throne in 1999 and has ruled the kingdom for the first two d...
Metaphors represent one of the major problems a translator may encounter. A number of studies have b...
Some translators do not pay sufficient attention to the figures of speech, particularly metaphor and...
The political reforms announced by the Jordanian regime in 2012 were widely welcomed on the internat...
The common sense is that each time you revise a discourse you can find new points behind the lines. ...
This article investigates a speech delivered by King Abdullah of Jordan at Oxford University. The st...
This paper presents some preliminary results of a project concerned with identifying and analyzing a...
The process of political reforms taking place in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia can not be separated fr...
In the late 1970s, linguists such as George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and Michael Reddy began to realize...
The cognitive and affective appeal of metaphor exploits subconscious discernment that is aroused non...
In the late 1970s, linguists such as George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and Michael Reddy began to realize...
Conceptual metaphors continue to receive scholarly attention from discourse analysts taking politica...
Politics is marked by power play among the politicians themselves and between the politicians and th...