Variation in political metaphor / edited by Paul H. Thibodeau, Julien Perrez, Min Reuchamps.

"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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Thibodeau, Paul H. (Paul Henry) (Editor), Perrez, Julien (Editor), Reuchamps, Min (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Series:Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 85.
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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.