TY - BOOK ID - 146052003 TI - Metaphor and political discourse : analogical reasoning in debates about Europe PY - 2016 SN - 9781137558312 PB - Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Analyse du discours KW - Métaphore. KW - Analogie (linguistique) KW - Aspect politique. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:146052003 AB - 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. ER -