Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphors in British and American Political Speeches : A Systemic Functional Approach

The thesis aims to investigate the similarities and differences in the employment of interpersonal grammatical metaphors (IGMs) in political speeches (PSs) by British politicians (Bps) and American politicians (Aps) regarding their semantic categories and pragmatic functions. In order to conduct the...

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1. autor: Đoàn Thị Diệu Lan
Kolejni autorzy: PGS.TS. Trần Hữu Phúc
Format: luanvanthacsi
Język:English
Wydane: Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ, Đại học Đà Nẵng 2024
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Dostęp online:https://data.ufl.udn.vn//handle/UFL/598
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Streszczenie:The thesis aims to investigate the similarities and differences in the employment of interpersonal grammatical metaphors (IGMs) in political speeches (PSs) by British politicians (Bps) and American politicians (Aps) regarding their semantic categories and pragmatic functions. In order to conduct the study, 112 speeches delivered by American and British politicians from 1975 to 2011 from the internet and newspapers are collected then classified into two groups: American political speeches (APS) and British political speeches (BPS) to build two research corpora. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods were adopted on the basis of corpus- based method in collecting the data.