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Title: Family beyond borders

 

Vol. 2, 2017, pp. 21-28.

DOI: 10.46687/SILC.2017.v02.002

 

Author: Aleksandra Aleksandrova

About the author: Aleksandra Aleksandrova, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Department of English Studies at Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen, Bulgaria. She received a BA degree in English Studies from the University of Shumen and an MA degree in Conference Interpreting from the University of Veliko Tarnovo in collaboration with the DG SCIC - European Commission.  The author received her PhD in Linguistics from Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen in 2017. Her interests include onomastics, translation studies, cognitive linguistics, media studies, and discourse analysis.

e-mail: a.aleksandrova@shu.bg

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9669-6273

 

Citation (APA style): Aleksandrova, A. (2017). Family beyond borders. Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 2, 21-28. doi: 10.46687/SILC.2017.v02.002

 

Link: https://silc.fhn-shu.com/images/issues/2017/SILC_2017_2_021_028_8_EN.pdf

 

Abstract: The paper studies the way Lakoff’s STATE IS A PERSON metaphor and Mussolf’s family scenario are exploited in British and Bulgarian media texts. The models that are studied include marriage partners/ divorce, children-parents relations, misbehaving children, good children, poor relatives and stepmothers. The type of family relation used for presenting certain situation can change with a change in the political environment – for instance, a country can be presented as a marriage partner in one text, as a divorcee in another and as a (disobedient) child in a third text.

Key words: the state is a person metaphor, metaphor scenarios, family scenario

 

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