Introduction 1. Context, Corpus, and Fields of Study 2. Boundaries of the Welfare State 3. Figurative Models of the Welfare State 4. Indirect Metaphors of the Welfare State 5. Construing the Welfare State Bibliography Index

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Investigates the discursive construction of the concept of the welfare state in the British press during a time of financial crisis and austerity.

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Malgorzata Paprota is Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland.

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Paprota skillfully shows how metaphorical models of the welfare state shape and limit our understanding of its functions and frame the debate about its reform.
*Malgorzata Fabiszak, University Professor, Department of Cognitive Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland*

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