WHAT MAKES METAPHORS MANIPULATIVE TOOLS?

What Makes Metaphors Manipulative Tools?

Manipulation implies a conscious choice from speakers to trigger a change of opinion in the interlocutors and to make them accept their own point of view, i.e.their own vision of the world.As pointed out by Goatly [2007], Charteris-Black [2005, 2014] or Van Dijk [1998], metaphors can be used as manipulative tools.Metaphors have traditionally been c

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FICTITIOUS CAPITAL AND MONOPOLY CAPITALISM

The present piece of UPS work is a reply to a scientific research that has as general objective, to establish the logic and historic determinations of one capital mode.This manner, has converted itself in the capital of the present phase of the capitalist development: "the fictitious Anti-Perspirant capital".The intention of the work is proving the

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