Indigestible Food, Conquering Hordes, and Waste Materials: Metaphors of Immigrants and the Early Immigration Restriction Debate in the United States
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Metaphor and Symbol
- Vol. 18 (1) , 33-47
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327868ms1801_3
Abstract
A prime example of metaphor use is to denigrate marginalized populations as a means of supporting adverse social policies against group members. This article describes the use of organism, object, natural catastrophe/war and animal metaphors in the immigration restriction debate of the early 1900s. In addition to describing linguistic metaphors that served to dehumanize immigrants or portray them as a threat to social functioning, more global conceptual metaphors will also be discussed.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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