Metaphors as ideological constructs for identity in Malaysian short stories
This paper illustrates how writers use metaphors as constructs of ideology. The paper is based on a study of two short stories that posit LAND as a metaphor for IDENTITY. Working on a sociological view of ideology, the study employed Lakoff’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory to conduct a cognitive analysi...
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Main Author: | Ravichandran Vengadasamy, |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
2011
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Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3048/1/11-Ravichandran.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3048/ http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/3L/3LHome.html |
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