American Offensive Funny Riddles: A Critical Metaphor Analysis

a critical discourse analysis on gender representation in the iranian english books 2, 3 and top notch 2a, 2b a critical discourse analysis perspective

هدف از انجام تحقیق حاضر، مطالعه و بررسی نقش زنان و مردان در دو مجموعه از کتابهای درسی انگلیسی در قالب تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی و همچنین، بررسی و آشکار ساختن اصول ایدوئولوژیکی مربوط به نقش زنان و مردان در این کتابها است. این دو مجموعه کتاب عبارتنداز: کتابهای انگلیسی سال دوم و سوم دبیرستانی ایران و کتابهای تاپ ناچ 2آ و 2ب. برای انجام این منظور، مدل تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی فرکلاف مورد استفاده قرار گرفته ...

Critical Discourse Analysis and Metaphor : Toward a Theoretical Framework 1

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) explores the role of discourse structures in constituting social inequality. Metaphorical structure, however, has received relatively little attention in explicit CDA. The paper aims to redress this by developing a coherent theoretical framework for CDA and metaphor. This framework adopts conceptual blending theory over conceptual metaphor theory, where the lat...

Critical Discourse Analysis and Metaphor : Toward a Theoretical Framework

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) explores the role of discourse structures in constituting social inequality. Metaphorical structure, however, has received relatively little attention in explicit CDA. The paper aims to redress this by developing a coherent theoretical framework for CDA and metaphor. This framework adopts conceptual blending theory over conceptual metaphor theory, where the lat...

Games and Metaphor – A critical analysis of the metaphor discourse in game studies

This doctoral dissertation critically investigates how the concept of metaphor is used with regard to games in game studies. The goal is to provide the field with a self-understanding of its metaphor discourse which has not been researched so far. The thesis departs from the observation that the notion of metaphor has been present in the discourse of game studies since it emerged as an academic...

The study of metaphor as part of critical discourse analysis