'Ladders for climbing up or jumping off?’ On the interpretation of metaphors in political discourse in Hong Kong

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor	Department of English	-
dc.creator	Chan, ASL	-
dc.creator	Yap, FH	-
dc.date.accessioned	2014-12-11T08:29:22Z	-
dc.date.available	2014-12-11T08:29:22Z	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10397/6983	-
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.title	'Ladders for climbing up or jumping off?’ On the interpretation of metaphors in political discourse in Hong Kong	en_US
dc.type	Presentation	en_US
dcterms.abstract	The presentation aims at	-
dcterms.abstract	1.To explore how politicians make use of metaphors to address or frame social issues during the Legislative Council Election 2012.	-
dcterms.abstract	2.To explain the latent symbolic representations and concepts involved in these metaphors.	-
dcterms.abstract	3.To study how the symbolic representations of the same metaphor can sometimes be negotiated and reframed by the rivals.	-
dcterms.accessRights	open access	en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitation	The 7th Annual International Free Linguistics Conference (FLC), 27-28 September 2013, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong	-
dcterms.issued	2013-09	-
dc.identifier.rosgroupid	r70617	-
dc.description.ros	2013-2014 > Academic research: refereed > Refereed conference paper	-
dc.description.oa	Not applicable	en_US
dc.identifier.FolderNumber	OA_IR/PIRA	en_US
dc.description.oaCategory	Copyright retained by author	en_US
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