“If big brother England votes to leave the EU … we will be treated like upstart children”: Irony and a United Kingdom family of nations metaphor in Scottish nationalist discourse
This study explores the inter-play between metaphor and irony in the communication of contrasting UK “family of nations” (UK-FON) metaphor variants by Conservative and Scottish National Party members of the UK Parliament. The study proposes: first, that debates surrounding the intertwined issues of...
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Observatoire de la société britannique
2023
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