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On the analysability of English exocentric compounds

Réka Benczes
E-mail: rbenczes@yahoo.com
Loránd Eötvös University, English Linguistics PhD Program, Budapest
Abstract: In the past two decades, numerous studies have been written on the successful application of metaphor, metonymy and blending in the analysis of idiomatic expressions which traditional linguistic liter...

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Magic tricks with race cards: Conceptual integration theory and political discourse

Sanja Berberović
E-mail: sanja.berberovic@untz.ba
Sveučilište u Tuzli
Abstract: The paper examines the use of creative figurative language in American political discourse. In particular, the paper focuses on the use of the expression to play the race card and the creative figurat...

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THE PRESIDENT AND THE VIPER: POLITICAL SATIRE AND CONCEPTUAL BLENDING THEORY

Sanja Berberović
E-mail: sanja.berberovic@untz.ba
University of Tuzla

Nihada Delibegović Džanić
University of Tuzla
Abstract: Applying conceptual blending theory, the paper analyses the construction of the meaning of a satirical text ridiculing the language employed by politicians to frame the debate on current political and...