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<p>The article discusses figurative use of expressions from the domains of INVASION and HOUSE in media discourse on the European migrant crisis. The conceptual metaphors MIGRATION AS AN INVASION and the COMMON EUROPEAN HOUSE, which are inextricably related in the segments of the real discourse on migration, have strong rhetorical power and serve as a means of promoting antimigrant ideologies. The aim of this paper is to identify the instances of deliberate use of the aforementioned metaphors in British and Bosnian-Herzegovinian papers and describe their use in the media with the aim of changing addressees’ perspectives on an important issue such as migration.</p>
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The article discusses figurative use of expressions from the domains of INVASION and HOUSE in media discourse on the European migrant crisis. The conceptual metaphors MIGRATION AS AN INVASION and the COMMON EUROPEAN HOUSE, which are inextricably related in the segments of the real discourse on migration, have strong rhetorical power and serve as a means of promoting antimigrant ideologies. The aim of this paper is to identify the instances of deliberate use of the aforementioned metaphors in British and Bosnian-Herzegovinian papers and describe their use in the media with the aim of changing addressees’ perspectives on an important issue such as migration.

The Migration as an Invasion and the Common European House metaphors in media discourse

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The article discusses figurative use of expressions from the domains of INVASION and HOUSE in media discourse on the European migrant crisis. The conceptual...

The Migration as an Invasion and the Common European House metaphors in media discourse

Pubblicato online: 30 dic 2022

Pagine: 22 - 50

Ricevuto: 14 giu 2022

Accettato: 09 nov 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2022-0009

Parole chiave
Deliberate Metaphor Theory, deliberate metaphor, the MIGRATION AS AN INVASION, THE COMMON EUROPEAN HOUSE, media discourse, immigrant discourse

© 2022 Mersina Mujagić, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Migration as an Invasion and the Common European House metaphors in media discourse

Pubblicato online: 30 dic 2022

Pagine: 22 - 50

Ricevuto: 14 giu 2022

Accettato: 09 nov 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2022-0009

Parole chiaveDeliberate Metaphor Theory, deliberate metaphor, the MIGRATION AS AN INVASION, THE COMMON EUROPEAN HOUSE, media discourse, immigrant discourse

© 2022 Mersina Mujagić, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Parole chiave
Deliberate Metaphor Theory, deliberate metaphor, the MIGRATION AS AN INVASION, THE COMMON EUROPEAN HOUSE, media discourse, immigrant discourse