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Book SynopsisApplying the insights of cognitive metaphor theory to an extensive natural language data set drawn from hundreds of articles in the Los Angeles Times and other media, Santa Ana reveals how metaphorical language portrays Latinos as invaders, outsiders, bur
Trade Review"This is a highly significant contribution to scholarship in several fields - sociology, sociolinguistics, cultural studies, political studies, ethnic studies... The combination of lucid and rational theory, rich data set, and carefully reasoned analysis results in an unusually powerful book." Ronald Schmidt Sr., author of Language Policy and Identity Politics in the United States
Table of Contents
- Foreword by Joe R. Feagin
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One: Why Study the Public Discourse Metaphors Depicting Latinos?
- Part I: Theory and Method
- Chapter Two: How Metaphor Shapes Public Opinion
- Part II: Analyses
- Chapter Three: Proposition 187: Misrepresenting Immigrants and Immigration
- Chapter Four: Proposition 209: Competing Metaphors to Construct Racism and Affirmative Action
- Chapter Five: Student as Means, Not End: Contemporary American Discourse on Education
- Chapter Six: American Discourse on Nation and Language: The "English for the Children" Referendum
- Part III: Conclusions
- Chapter Seven: Disease or Intruder: Metaphors Constructing the Place of Latinos in the United States
- Chapter Eight: Insurgent Metaphors: Contesting the Conventional Representations of Latinos
- Appendix: Tallies of Political Metaphors
- Notes
- References
- Index
