Description: "Analysing political discourse in the British press during a time of crisis and austerity, this book examines how the concept of the welfare state has been constructed between 2008 and 2015. A corpus from four British newspapers from across the political spectrum is brought together to investigate the political debate on its evaluation and the ambiguity about its exact definition. A discourse-historical approach is used to establish what the welfare state is, and conceptual metaphor theory is then used to explore its figurative conceptualisations"--
Brief description: Malgorzata Paprota is Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland.
Review Quotes: "Paprota skillfully shows how metaphorical models of the welfare state shape and limit our understanding of its functions and frame the debate about its reform." --Malgorzata Fabiszak, University Professor, Department of Cognitive Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland