The polarity of war metaphors in sports news: a corpus-informed analysis

War metaphors have long been used in sports news reporting. In reality, war metaphors are also used commonly in daily conversations. The wide usage of war metaphors in sports news reporting is because the two domains (i.e. war and sports) are comparable to each other, thereby enabling the use...

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Main Authors: Tan, Kim Hua, Hamdi Khalis, Nur-Ehsan Mohd-Said, Ong, Song Howe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2021
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/17265/
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