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1. Linguistic Analysis and Discourse StudiesVolume 25, Issue 2 (September 2025)pp. 482–504PDF of Impact of Poverty Metaphors in Policy Responses and Government Interventions: A Corpus-Based Study of Poverty Discourse in Northern Nigerian Newspapers

   Impact of Poverty Metaphors in Policy Responses and Government Interventions: A Corpus-Based Study of Poverty Discourse in Northern Nigerian Newspapers

   Bello Ibrahim and Funke Oni Josephine

   This study examines how poverty metaphors influence representations of government intervention and policy responses. The study uses a corpus-assisted qualitative design and conceptual metaphor theory developed by Lakoff … their explicit focus on poverty, poverty alleviation, government interventions, social protection, and related policy responses. Antconc version 4.3.1 was used to make concordances and find lexical and metaphorical patterns that