Metaphorically speaking: Putting Las Vegas on the cultural map

Las Vegas has art galleries, an art museum, a Cultural and Community Affairs Division. It also supports the Allied Arts Council of Southern Nevada and a southern branch of the Nevada Arts Council. Clearly, art and art advocates are present in Las Vegas. Yet, Las Vegas is traditionally viewed as a town with no culture and, furthermore, as a place that it is incompatible with art; This paper is a study of the relationship people believe Las Vegas has to art. I have used the methodology of Lakoff and Johnson's theory of conceptual metaphors (Lakoff and Johnson: 1980) to analyze language that has been published in popular literature over the last year and a half. The study results in a theory that describes how metaphorical links, between negative and positive stereotypes, may be helping to change Las Vegas from being a "cultural wasteland" to a "cultural frontier."

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

1999

Author dc:creator

• O Fearghail, Ester Sara

Contributors dc:contributor

• Gary Palmer

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/1057

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-2056