Effect of Metaphors on portraying Immigration in Political speeches. A Biopolitical View on Rhetorics

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, RWTH Aachen University, language: English, abstract: Metaphors are, next to parallels and comparisons, one of the most important rhetorical devices in political speeches. They were defined by Aristotle as 'giving the thing a name that belongs to something else's. Metaphors establish...