ARABIC-L: LING: Political Metaphor in Arabic Query

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1) Subject: Query: Political Metaphor in Arabic

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Date: 12 Mar 1999
From: nasalski at smail.Uni-Koeln.DE
Subject: Query: Political Metaphor in Arabic

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to ask you for any hint or advice on the political metaphor
in Arabic.

I am preparing a doctoral dissertation at the Cologne University on the
semiotic and pragmatic aspects of political communication in Arabic with
the special reference to the political metaphor. The idea is to examine
the specifics of the approaches and commitments to politics that are
manifest in Arabic language (metaphor, citations, conventional and
non-conventional expressions, direct and indirect speech acts etc.) on the
one hand, and to try to assess on that account the differences, if any,
between the western and eastern countries (western and Islamo-Arabic
tradition) on the other.

I would be grateful for any hint, reference or any information about
similar studies whatsoever.

Ignacy Nasalski
nasalski at smail.uni-koeln.de

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