Politics is football: Metaphor in the discourse of Silvio Berlusconi in Italy

Discourse and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 243-269

  Semino, Elena ^a   Masci, Michela ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Berlusconi; Italy; Metaphor; Political discourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344452775     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926596007002005     Document Type: Article

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