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"The objective of this book is to understand variation in political metaphor. Political metaphors are distinctive and important because they are used to achieve political goals: to persuade, to shape expectations, to realize specific objectives and actions. The analyses in the book go beyond th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Thibodeau, Paul H. (Paul Henry) (Editor), Perrez, Julien (Editor), Reuchamps, Min (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Series:Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 85.
Subjects:
Metaphor > Political aspects.
Discourse analysis > Political aspects.
Rhetoric > Political aspects.
Communication in politics.
Métaphore > Aspect politique.
Discours politique.
Communication politique.
Communication in politics
Discourse analysis > Political aspects
Metaphor > Political aspects
Rhetoric > Political aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Studying variation in political metaphor: From discourse analysis to experiment / Min Reuchamps, Paul H. Thibodeau and Julien Perrez
  • 1. First Lady, Secretary of State and Presidential Candidate: A comparative study of the role-dependent use of metaphor in politics / Kathleen Ahrens
  • 2. Fairies, Christmas miracles and sham marriages: A diachronic analysis of deliberate metaphors in Belgian political discourse / Pauline Heyvaert
  • 3. The rhetorical use of political metaphor before, during and after the presidency: Television interviews with the former Croatian president / Nikolina Borcic and Ivona Culo
  • 4. Knifed in the back: A metaphor analysis of party leadership takeovers / Ben Fenton-Smith
  • 5. Greek metaphors in the fiscal straightjacket / Anastasios Vogiatzis
  • 6. The use of sensorimotor-based concepts during and after presidential campaigns: Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump / Liane Stroebel
  • 7. Variations of metaphors in party manifestos about EU finality: Assessing party positions through conceptual metaphors / Jan Kovár
  • 8. Variation in methods for studying political metaphor: Comparing experiments and discourse analysis / Paul H. Thibodeau, James Fleming and Maya Lannen
  • Conclusion: A Journey through variation in political metaphor / Paul H. Thibodeau, Julien Perrez and Min Reuchamps
  • Biographical notes
  • Index.

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