Laurence De Backer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Laurence De Backer is involved.

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De Backer, Laurence and Renata Enghels 2022 The persuasive potential of metaphor when framing Mexican migrants and migration: A comparative study of the US written press Metaphor and the Social World 12:2, pp. 204–223 | Article
Research into the persuasive quality of metaphor has a long standing tradition, with the topic of migration embodying one of its pet discourse genres. Yet, only few studies have recognized the existence of identical metaphors occurring across the ideological divide. The present paper explores… read more
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