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Edited by Maria Clotilde Almeida, Rodrigo Furtado and Olga Blanco-Carrión
[Figurative Thought and Language 20] 2025
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The representation of refuge and migration through meta­phors in the online newspaper The New York Times

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Published online: 2 September 2025
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.20.03fer
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Metaphors and meta­phorical frames
    • 2.1Frames and meta­phors
  • 3.Methodology
    • 3.1Data collection
    • 3.2Analysis procedures
  • 4.Results and corpus analysis
    • 4.1Mapping: migration/refuge is natural disaster
    • 4.2Mapping: Refugees/ migrants Are goods
    • 4.3Mapping: Immigrants/ Refugees are felons
    • 4.4refugee is an undesired liquid
  • 5.Final remarks
  • Notes
  • References
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