Far from being rhetorical ornaments, metaphors play a central role in public discourse, as they shape the structure of political categorisation and argumentation. Drawing on a very large bilingual corpus, this book, now in paperback, analyses the distribution of 'metaphor scenarios' in more than a decade of public discourse on European integration, elucidating differences in UK and German attitudes and argumentation. The corpus analysis leads to a refinement of cognitive metaphor theory by systematically relating conceptual, semantic and argumentation levels and incorporating the historical dimension of metaphor evolution. Finally, drawing on examples of metaphor negotiation and on a reassessment of Hobbes' concept of metaphor in Leviathan, the book highlights the ethical dimension of metaphor in politics.Acknowledgements
Introduction: Metaphor and Politics
Conceptual Domains and Scenarios
Analogical Argument in Political Discourse
Corpora and the Semantics of Metaphor
Europe as a Body Politic
Discourse History in a Metaphor Corpus
Metaphor Negotiation
Metaphor as Deception
Open and Closed Metaphor Scenarios
References
Index
The extensive methodological detail on the corpus based analysis of metaphors in special and general corpora, which would make the book instantly useful to researchers and students who intend to conduct similar studies. & the book would have benefited from a more extended general introduction to corpus linguistics and metaphor theory and research. (Dimitrinka Atanasova, Journal of Language and Politics, Vol. 18 (1), 2019)
...sheds new light on the discursive behaviour of metaphors and highlights the need for rethinking some of the theoretical claims of cognitive linguistics...The analysis is especially fruitful with respect to discourse history.' - Christina Sch?ffner, University of Aston, UK<lS¯
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