Metaphors as ideological constructs for identity
in Malaysian short stories

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Metaphors as ideological constructs for identity in Malaysian short stories

This paper illustrates how writers use metaphors as constructs of ideology. The paper is based on a study of two short stories that posit LAND as a metaphor for IDENTITY. Working on a sociological view of ideology, the study employed Lakoff’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory to conduct a cognitive analysi...

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Main Author:	Ravichandran Vengadasamy
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2011
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3048/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3048/1/11-Ravichandran.pdf

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