FRAMED
Across the political spectrum, people talk about refugees as though they were a water mass, speaking of tidal waves of refugees, rising streams or even a tsunami.
Elisabeth Wehling, PhD, is a researcher in cognitive linguistics and political morality at UC Berkeley. She is the author of the German national bestseller Politisches Framing and co-author with George Lakoff of The Little Blue Book.
Across the political spectrum, people talk about refugees as though they were a water mass, speaking of tidal waves of refugees, rising streams or even a tsunami.