Political metaphor analysis : discourse and scenarios

Political metaphor analysis : discourse and scenarios / Andreas Musolff.

"Political metaphors and related figurative discourse tools are characterised by their variability and contentiousness. Using them, discourse participants try to gain competitive advantage over others by offering their audiences new meaning nuances, challenging each other and announcing politic...

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Main Author: Musolff, Andreas (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Series:Bloomsbury Critical Introductions to Lin.
Subjects:
Metaphor > Political aspects.
Discourse analysis > Political aspects.
Communication in politics.
Semantics, discourse analysis, etc.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
Communication in politics
Discourse analysis > Political aspects
Metaphor > Political aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Chapter 1 Introduction ; Chapter 2 Political conflict as war ; 2.1 Metaphors and concepts ; 2.2 Inferences from metaphors in relation to conceptual domains ; 2.3 Conceptual domains and metaphor corpora ; 2.4 Discursive frames in metaphor corpora ; 2.5 Summary ; Chapter 3 Metaphors, cognitive models and scenarios ; 3.1 Political metaphor and family models ; 3.2 Two metaphor models
  • one domain? ; 3.3 Family scenarios ; 3.4 Further scenario functions ; 3.5 Summary
  • Chapter 4 The life and times of a metaphor scenario: Britain at the heart of Europe 4.1 Memories of a metaphor ; 4.2 The emergence of a metaphor scenario ; 4.3 Scenario development ; 4.4 Scenarios and blends ; 4.5 Summary ; Chapter 5 The belly and the body politic ; 5.1 Memories of a fable ; 5.2 The body politic tradition ; 5.3 Body politic, corps politique, politischer K ö rper : Traces of national discourse traditions in metaphor usage ; 5.4 Historical explanations for the development of metaphor scenarios ; 5.5 Summary
  • Chapter 6 Parasites, scrounging and the question of deliberate metaphor 6.1 Parasites, metaphor and etymology ; 6.2 Metaphorizations ' back and forth ' ; 6.3 Metaphor and racism ; 6.4 Immigrants as ' parasites ' ; 6.5 Metaphors as deliberately chosen scenario elements ; 6.6 Summary ; Chapter 7 Nations as persons: Collective identity construction ; 7.1 Introduction: Speaking for a nation ; 7.2 From ' extended hands ' to a ' new Nakba ' in eight speeches ; 7.3 Nations as persons with social identities
  • 7.4 Two case studies 7.5 Summary ; Chapter 8 Understanding political metaphor ; 8.1 The unpredictability of metaphor understanding ; 8.2 Interpretations of the nation as body metaphor ; 8.3 Interpretations of the nation as person metaphor ; 8.4 Summary ; Chapter 9 Conclusion: How does scenario analysis fit into cognitive metaphor studies? ; Appendix I: Source concepts of the metaphor nation as body in British, French and German media in BODYPOL
  • Appendix II: Source concepts and English lexis in the metaphor field centred on the (nation) state is a (human) body in BODYPOL Appendix III: Linguistic/cultural background of questionnaire participants ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

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