Metaphor and Political Discourse

Analogical Reasoning in Debates about Europe

A. Musolff (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

211 Seiten

2004 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-55831-2 (ISBN)

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Far from being rhetorical ornaments, metaphors play a central role in public discourse, as they shape the structure of political categorisation and argumentation. 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.

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.

Andreas Musolff is Professor of Intercultural Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK, and has published on political rhetoric and its history in Britain and Germany. His books include Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust, Mirror Images of Europe, and Metaphor and Intercultural Communication.

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

Zusatzinfo	VIII, 211 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-137-55831-8 / 1137558318
ISBN-13	978-1-137-55831-2 / 9781137558312
Zustand	Neuware