A Multifactorial Approach to War and Corruption Metaphors in South Asian Englishes

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dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage269
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue1-2
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage284
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume44
dc.contributor.authorGarlepow, Linnea
dc.contributor.authorFunke, Nina
dc.contributor.authorGüldenring, Barbara Ann
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-27T15:35:29Z
dc.date.available2025-08-27T15:35:29Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.updated2025-04-15T18:18:48Z
dc.description.abstractThe present paper provides a corpus‐based study of <i>war</i> and <i>corruption</i> metaphors in South Asian Englishes (specifically Indian English, Bangladeshi English, Nepali English and Pakistani English). Considering the highly news‐relevant nature of these concepts, the South Asian Varieties of English corpus (SAVE2020) serves as the database. In an initial step, we outline the source domains at different levels of schematicity used to construe <i>war</i> and <i>corruption</i>, revealing the salient domains <i>at location</i> and <i>person</i>. By pursuing a multifactorial approach, this study aims at answering the question whether the choice of source domain is governed by the sociolinguistic factors <i>gender</i> and <i>variety</i>, and intra‐linguistic factors, for example, length and semantic prosody of the metaphor‐related words. It furthermore investigates whether multifactorial analyses, which are still a novelty within research on metaphor variation, constitute a suitable methodological approach. By doing so, our research demonstrates the need to complement this quantitative approach with a qualitative one that offers a more fine‐grained description of the source domains used to structure metaphorical concepts like <i>war</i> and <i>corruption</i>.
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/weng.12703
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/3642
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.issn0883-2919
dc.relation.journalWorld Englishesen
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.subject.ddcddc:420
dc.subject.ddcddc:305.3
dc.subject.ddcddc:305
dc.subject.fieldanglophoneliterature
dc.subject.fieldlinguistics
dc.titleA Multifactorial Approach to War and Corruption Metaphors in South Asian Englishes
dc.typearticle
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
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