Publications

Publication details [#26971]

Semino, Elena and Michela Masci. 1996. Politics is football: Metaphor in the discourse of Silvio Berlusconi in Italy. Discourse & Society 7 (2) : 243–269.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognitive metaphor theory | discourse analysis | metaphor | political language

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper shows how metaphors in Berlusconi's political discourse serve to engender a positive public image and to electioneer and to change Italians' relation to politics.