How is Brexit Linguistically Conceptualized? The Brexit is a journey metaphor scenario in David Cameron’s, Theresa May’s and Boris Johnson’s Speeches
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13 février 2023
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Brexit David Cameron Theresa May Boris Johnson corpus linguistics cognitive linguistics discourse analysis journey metaphor semantic analysis direction evaluationSujets proches
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Denis Jamet et al., « How is Brexit Linguistically Conceptualized? The Brexit is a journey metaphor scenario in David Cameron’s, Theresa May’s and Boris Johnson’s Speeches », Observatoire de la société britannique, ID : 10.4000/osb.5658
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From David Cameron, through Theresa May, to Boris Johnson, what Brexit means has evolved, linguistically speaking, but also conceptually speaking. It is mostly through discourse that this quite unfathomable concept came into being and slowly became a more stable notion in the British and European contexts. Thanks to corpus linguistics software tools together with cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis, this article seeks to follow the findings of a previous study on the perception of Brexit by Tories through an analysis of 92 speeches delivered by Tory Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson. Following a quantitative and qualitative approach, the paper aims to analyze the Brexit is a journey metaphor scenario, and more particularly the direction of the movement and the evaluation of the metaphor scenarios resorted to by the three Conservative Prime Ministers.