Thirteen years apart... the Iraq wars. A critical cognitive analysis of the use of metaphors in the representation of the two wars

This study is a multidisciplinary approach toward examining the conceptualization of critical political events in the language of people in power. The topic of investigation tackles two major wars; the First Iraq War 1990-1991, as well as the Second Iraq War 2003. This study is particularity interes...

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Autor: AlRubaian, Haifa Mohammed
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
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spelling Thirteen years apart... the Iraq wars. A critical cognitive analysis of the use of metaphors in the representation of the two warsTrece años aparte... las guerras de Irak. Un análisis crítico-cognitivo del uso de las metáforas en la representación de las dos guerrasAlRubaian, Haifa Mohammed811.111'373.612.2(043.2)English languageMetaphorIraq warsLengua inglesaMetáforaGuerras de IrakFilología inglesa5505.10 FilologíaThis study is a multidisciplinary approach toward examining the conceptualization of critical political events in the language of people in power. The topic of investigation tackles two major wars; the First Iraq War 1990-1991, as well as the Second Iraq War 2003. This study is particularity interested in the choice and dependency on certain conceptual metaphors by the two Presidents as well as the newspapers journalists in the conceptualization of the two wars as well as in the depiction of the major war actors. The theoretical framework for the dissertation includes Cognitive Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics. The aim is to determine how the choice of certain conceptual metaphors by the two Presidents may have ideologically constructed a particular image of the two wars and their actors that is favorable to the two Presidents. Consequently, influencing others, here mainly journalists, to adopt the same image and eventually enabling themselves to achieve higher approval rates...Universidad Complutense de MadridMarín Arrese, Juana IsabelUniversidad Complutense de Madrid20202020-02-2420202020-02-24doctoral thesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesisapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/10956reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/109562026-06-02T12:44:21Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Thirteen years apart... the Iraq wars. A critical cognitive analysis of the use of metaphors in the representation of the two wars
Trece años aparte... las guerras de Irak. Un análisis crítico-cognitivo del uso de las metáforas en la representación de las dos guerras
title Thirteen years apart... the Iraq wars. A critical cognitive analysis of the use of metaphors in the representation of the two wars
spellingShingle Thirteen years apart... the Iraq wars. A critical cognitive analysis of the use of metaphors in the representation of the two wars
AlRubaian, Haifa Mohammed
811.111'373.612.2(043.2)
English language
Metaphor
Iraq wars
Lengua inglesa
Metáfora
Guerras de Irak
Filología inglesa
5505.10 Filología
title_short Thirteen years apart... the Iraq wars. A critical cognitive analysis of the use of metaphors in the representation of the two wars
title_full Thirteen years apart... the Iraq wars. A critical cognitive analysis of the use of metaphors in the representation of the two wars
title_fullStr Thirteen years apart... the Iraq wars. A critical cognitive analysis of the use of metaphors in the representation of the two wars
title_full_unstemmed Thirteen years apart... the Iraq wars. A critical cognitive analysis of the use of metaphors in the representation of the two wars
title_sort Thirteen years apart... the Iraq wars. A critical cognitive analysis of the use of metaphors in the representation of the two wars
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv 811.111'373.612.2(043.2)
English language
Metaphor
Iraq wars
Lengua inglesa
Metáfora
Guerras de Irak
Filología inglesa
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topic 811.111'373.612.2(043.2)
English language
Metaphor
Iraq wars
Lengua inglesa
Metáfora
Guerras de Irak
Filología inglesa
5505.10 Filología
description This study is a multidisciplinary approach toward examining the conceptualization of critical political events in the language of people in power. The topic of investigation tackles two major wars; the First Iraq War 1990-1991, as well as the Second Iraq War 2003. This study is particularity interested in the choice and dependency on certain conceptual metaphors by the two Presidents as well as the newspapers journalists in the conceptualization of the two wars as well as in the depiction of the major war actors. The theoretical framework for the dissertation includes Cognitive Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics. The aim is to determine how the choice of certain conceptual metaphors by the two Presidents may have ideologically constructed a particular image of the two wars and their actors that is favorable to the two Presidents. Consequently, influencing others, here mainly journalists, to adopt the same image and eventually enabling themselves to achieve higher approval rates...
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