The Language of Interstate Relations In Search of Personification [Hardcover]

In challenging the widely held belief in the ubiquity of the personification of the political state, this book strives to de-politicize research and to de-mystify conceptual metaphor. Opposed to mainstream cognitive assumptions, it provides detailed data-driven research and one realistic solution to many of the dilemmas.Introduction 1. The Language of International Actorness 2. The Politicization of Linguistic Research 3. Metaphor and Methods of Metaphor Identification 4. The Metaphorized Language of IR 5. In Search of the 'State is a Person' Metaphor 6. The Metonymization of the State 7. Semantic Extensions Conclusion Notes References

Piotr Twardzisz is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His research interests focus on specialist languages, figurative language, word formation, lexicology and terminology, as well as politics and international affairs. Piotr is author of Zero Derivation in English: A Cognitive Grammar Approach (1997), Patterns of English Word-Formation (2010) and numerous articles.