Bush’s and Gore’s language and gestures in the 2000 US presidential debates:A test case for two models of metaphors

Journal of Language and Politics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 409-440

  Cienki, Alan ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservative; Gesture; Liberal; Metaphor; Metaphorical models

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248048193     PISSN: 15692159     EISSN: 15699862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.3.3.04cie     Document Type: Article

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