Mariko Thomas

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mariko Thomas is involved.

Article

Ritchie, David and Mariko Thomas 2015 A “bright blue ball”, “brushed with clouds” or “parched, scorched, and washed away”? Barack Obama’s use of contrasting metaphors and stories in framing climate change Metaphor and the Social World 5:1, pp. 1–19 | Article

This paper examines President Barack Obama’s use of contrasting metaphors and metaphorical stories to frame the issue of climate change and the associated political controversies in a major policy speech at Georgetown University in 2013. One major theme in the speech contrasted a series of… read more