The Koteyko, Role Brown, of Metaphor and Crawford in Uk Press Coverage of Avian Flu

• Main Authors: Nelya Koteyko, Brian Brown, Paul Crawford
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Crawford; Avian flu
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.413.6467; http://www.brown.uk.com/publications/parrot.pdf

This article takes two events in the ongoing story of a predicted UK avian flu epidemic—“the dead parrot ” (October 2005) and “the dying swan ” (April 2006)—and examines the role and use of three interconnected metaphor scenarios (related to the notions of “journey, ” “war, ” and “house”) in the UK...