Australia's Ambivalence Towards Asia: Politics, Neo/post-colonialism and Fact/fiction |
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... metaphor research to postcolonial textual study . As Jacob Mey ( 1993 : 62 , 64-5 ) puts it , ' Discussions on the aptness and necessity of metaphorical awareness usually concentrate on the problem of content : What does a particular ...
... metaphor research to postcolonial textual study . As Jacob Mey ( 1993 : 62 , 64-5 ) puts it , ' Discussions on the aptness and necessity of metaphorical awareness usually concentrate on the problem of content : What does a particular ...
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... metaphorical ascription of animalistic charac- teristics to both Malays ( bees ) and Chinese ( pigs ) in the first paragraph ( a recurring theme of the book ) , and the judgement that the Malaysian leaders had lied . The bee metaphor ...
... metaphorical ascription of animalistic charac- teristics to both Malays ( bees ) and Chinese ( pigs ) in the first paragraph ( a recurring theme of the book ) , and the judgement that the Malaysian leaders had lied . The bee metaphor ...
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... metaphors : the Asian as machine and the Asian as child . The former metaphor is apparently exclusively associated with the Chinese ; accordingly , we read of the woman in the ' Pets Shop ' that : ( xlv ) ' Her hands kept on killing and ...
... metaphors : the Asian as machine and the Asian as child . The former metaphor is apparently exclusively associated with the Chinese ; accordingly , we read of the woman in the ' Pets Shop ' that : ( xlv ) ' Her hands kept on killing and ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | 19 |
Of literature linguistics and wider issues | 29 |
The Ideology | 38 |
Copyright | |
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