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Extremism, political University of Antwerp
Frames and deliberate metaphors of the financial crisis University of Antwerp
Branding the image of a fox University of Antwerp
This article presents the branding case of EU president Herman Van Rompuy. The branding of the political image is at the heart of being in control. Political candidates, even those with a damaged reputation, are therefore challenged to produce an image that projects nothing but the positive side of their characters, or the traits that fit the position they desire. Which are the personality traits required, in the given context, from a chief ...
Syria's Arab Spring and the public personality of its president University of Antwerp
Media rhetoric plays the market University of Antwerp
This article examines the logic and power of financial news metaphors in the current economic climate. The sequence of global financial crises starting in late 2007 led to a particular discursive phenomenon in financial news. Newspapers constructed, with vivid imagery (e.g., toxic loans, nervous markets to be calmed down), a globalized register for talking and writing about the crises. The empirical study of 3,730 Dutch and Flemish-Belgian ...
Political color of metaphor, with focus on black University of Antwerp
Black Sunday still is how Belgian citizens speak about the 1991 election victory of the Flemish extreme right party Vlaams Blok. The 2004 condemnation by court for racism made the party chose a softer image and a new name. This article examines the ideological meaning of the transformation of Vlaams Blok [Flemish Bloc] into Vlaams Belang [Flemish Interest]. Do the changes implemented by the party similar to other European radical right parties ...