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Terrorism in Media Political Discourse: from Metaphorical Expressions to Cognitive Models

and political philosophy (Lakoff and Johnson 1999, Johnson 1993, Elshtain 2004, Fairclough 2001, Spencer 2006, Turner 2002, etc.). For that purpose, thirty-six analytical articles, searched by the key ... filosofija R e s e a r c h i n t e r e s t s : cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, media political discourse analysis, political philosophy TERORIZMO METAFOROS VIEŠAJAME POLITINIAME DISKURSE

Parliamentary Supremacy versus Judicial SupremacyHow can adversarial judicial, public, and political dialogue be institutionalised?

The battles between proponents and opponents of judicial supremacy have recently intensified in the US and also in Europe. I summarise the debates in political philosophy, legal theory and ... Social and Political Philosophy (Faculty of Humanities) and of Sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences) at the University from anonymous reviewers and from Leonard Besselink, Nik de Boer, Bas Schotel, Marcel

Fundamental Rights and the EU Internal Market: Just how Fundamental are the EU Treaty Freedoms?A Normative Enquiry Based on John Rawls’ Political Philosophy

fundamental rights. It uses the political philosophy of John Rawls to assess why we should attach priority to certain rights and which rights should therefore be considered fundamental rights. On this basis it ... important, and be very careful in allowing restrictions on fundamental rights for the purpose of protecting this market access. This article uses the political philosophy of John Rawls and his philosophical

Amex: Discord and Unity in the Canadian Vietnam-Era Anti-Draft Movement, 1969-1971

engaging in direct political activism, many aid group members viewed helping draft dodgers and deserters immigrate as a form of war resistance.5 Exile groups consisted entirely of American immigrants and ... were usually defined by their members’ continued identification as Americans in exile. Some, like the aid groups, focused on helping Americans adjust to life in Canada. Others also emphasized political

The Depiction of Native Hawaiians in American Media

representation and the impact of stereotypes on both Native Hawaiian identity and public views of Native Hawaiians is scarce. This paper uses political cartoons, travel ephemera, film footage, and various forms of ... knowledge of Hawaiʻi is little to none, so you are looking forward to learning more about the “Paradise of the Pacific.”2 Your first exposure to Hawaiian political, cultural, and financial affairs comes from

Internalized Oppression: Exploring the Nuanced Experiences of Gender and Sexuality in Historically Black Colleges and Universities

ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 642, no. 1 (2012), 43–60. 8 Erica Lorraine Williams, “Women’s Studies and Sexuality Studies at HBCUs: The Audre Lorde Project at Spelman ... the domestic sphere, received little help from white feminist movements, and were later forced to form their own Black feminist resistance against heterosexist, male-dominated schools and political

Recipes for Life: Black Women, Cooking, and Memory

Black culture on a personal and communal level. The personal, political, economic, and cultural are all expressed in these culinary texts. Scholarship and the continued practice of African American ... , ed. Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr (Temple University Press, 2011), 400-401. 3 Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past,” The Journal of American History 91

Online Political Microtargeting: Promises and Threats for Democracy

Online political microtargeting involves monitoring people’s online behaviour, and using the collected data, sometimes enriched with other data, to show people-targeted political advertisements ... . Introduction Political campaigns are increasingly combining data-driven voter research with personalised political advertising: online political microtargeting.1 Through political microtargeting, a political

A Tale of Two Motherlands: Bridging the Gap Between the American and Korean Identities of Korean War Adoptees

story of the “full-blooded” Korean child as a way to correct America’s failure in the war and mend their political relationship with South Korea. These children were the only remaining presence of the ... emotional and physical transformations, the media also used the children as a political tool to further advance Cold War sentiments within the United States. Comparing their lives in Korea to their lives in

The North American Gamble: An Examination of Nation-State Projects in Canada and the United States

political campaign for secession and subsequent sovereignty. This paper will first examine the nation-state project in the Confederate States of America under Jefferson Davis. Second, it will examine the ... American identities, and how these in turn shaped the political philosophy of Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis. A staunch proponent of slavery and states’ rights, Davis would come to lead a nation state

Race, Place, and Religion: African American Missionaries in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

take upon themselves aspects of Anglo-Christian ‘civilization,’ they should do so under their own political autonomy rather than being led by Europeans or African Americans.25 While this does somewhat

Oppositions and Their Member Nominations in the Conflict Communication Discourse of Artūras Paulauskas (2004)

The object of this article is the linguistic means of political conflict communication that are characteristic of the political discourse of the Acting President of Lithuania Artūras Paulauskas (2004 ... methods of managing conflict solutions. Political conflict communication, which is generally analysed on the basis of parliamentary debates, does not have a precise definition. Conflict communication can be

Impact of internal migration on political participation in Turkey

ᅟ The Impact of population mobility on provincial turnout rates in the 2011 Turkish parliamentary election is studied, controlling for the effects of other socio-economic, demographic, political and ... adverse effect is less in areas with high migrant concentrations, and that in Turkey, political participation is highest among the youngest voters are the novel findings of the study. The latter finding may

The Concept of ‘Water’ in the Metaphorics of Economic Discourse

human thought and activity than philosophy, or mathematics, or various trades, that is why they have to draw on general literary language or other sciences for their terms, hence the abundance of ... from Aristotle’s De Poetica metaphors have been looked upon as elements of figurative speech, ornaments used to enhance the effect of a statement “in political or forensic oratory” on the addressee

Intentionality and Conventional Meaning (Socio-Historical Approach)

and ideologies. The number and composition of such meanings can change and vary due to an interplay of environmental factors – social, political, economic, cultural, etc. – and can be drawn from ... ) analyze linguistic scholars. It was introduced to modern devices used in discourses which perform philosophy by F. Brentano (Brentano a perlocutive function. 1995) and later constituted the cornerstone of

The (Political) Pursuit of Victim Voice:(Comparative) Observations on the Dutch Draft on the Adviesrecht

? needs used within the political debate may be featured as a homogeneous concept, the legal traditions that need to host victim-oriented arrangements differ. Indeed, the apparent political consensus with ... Victim Support was, however, felt to be beneficial.41 Nevertheless, the expansion of the oral VIS remained a contentious issue within the Dutch debate. In the wake of the political debate with regard to

Is There a Gay Brain? The Problems with Scientific Research of Sexual Orientation

the biological determining factor of human sexual orientation. Blinded by his political motivation to aid the gay rights movement at the end of the twentieth century, LeVay's study - as well as the ... a time when the political fight for gay and lesbian rights was prominent in the United States and Canada. In their article ?Scientific Communications about Biological Influences on Homosexuality and

ON SOME HUMOROUS ASPECTS OF CONCEPTUAL BLENDING IN POLITICIZED DISCOURSE

that in Lithuanian politicized discourse during and after the period of elections (2012, 2016) the majority of political events and personalities were given an evaluative implicit assessment through ... and political events on news websites is discussed focusing exceptionally on the processes of blending at the lexical level. The research reveals that the coinage of new lexical units by fusing at least

The Meaning of Soul in Ælfric’s “Catholic Homilines”

Ælfric’s “Catholic Homilies”. The article advocates an interdisciplinary approach which embraces the fields of cognitive semantics, the history of the English language, culturology, philosophy, and theology ... Catholic Homilies. This descriptive-analytical article advocates an interdisciplinary approach which embraces the fields of cognitive semantics, the history of the English language, culturology, philosophy