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"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 political initiatives. It is here that metaphor as a means to change meanings - and thus, to change social and political reality - comes into its own. Political Metaphor Analysis provides an innovative approach to the study of figurative language use in political discourse by presenting empirical analyses based on a large corpus of political metaphors and metonymies, linking these analyses to theoretical positions and assessing their limitations and perspectives for further exploration. The 'classic' model of conceptual metaphor analysis, pioneered by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and expanded and amended over the past thirty-five years, is critically examined with regard to new findings about the variation, historicity, pragmatic exploitation, comprehension and interpretation of metaphors. As a central new analytical category, the notion of "metaphor scenario" is proposed and tested against various sub-sets of data. It allows to link hypothesised conceptual metaphors to narrative, argumentative and evaluative patterns in actual discourse and understanding processes, so that their cognitive significance can be more reliably gauged and theoretically modelled."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Politics --- Pragmatics --- Mass communications --- Metaphor --- Discourse analysis --- Communication in politics. --- Political aspects. --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification --- Metaphor. --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics

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Analogy --- Discourse analysis --- Metaphor --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Reasoning --- Political aspects --- Europe --- Politics and government --- Mass communications --- Pragmatics --- Discourse analysis - Political aspects. --- Metaphor. --- Métaphore --- Discours --- Europe - Politics and government

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This book presents the results of a large-scale experiment into interpretations of the metaphor “the Nation as a Body” among 1,800+ respondents from 30 linguistic and cultural backgrounds. In this first account of an empirical study of cross-cultural global metaphor interpretation of that scale, Musolff confirms that the meanings of metaphors are complex, culturally mediated and may differ for senders and recipients. The book provides a historical and cultural map of the traditions underlying differences in how the nation as a body – or, “the body politic” – is understood. Musolff challenges the hypotheses of the universality of “the nation” as a predominantly male-gendered and hierarchically organized concept and, in so doing, puts into question some of the key presuppositions of traditional historical and cognitive approaches to metaphor. For scholars and students of figurative language, the book lays out methodological foundations for cross-cultural metaphor comparison and reveals hidden meaning differences in political metaphor in English as lingua franca.

Sociolinguistics. --- Language and languages—Philosophy. --- Political theory. --- Civilization—History. --- Philosophy of Language. --- Political Theory. --- Cultural History. --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Metaphor --- Political aspects. --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification

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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. 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.

Analyse du discours --- Métaphore. --- Analogie (linguistique) --- Aspect politique.

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This four-part book explores the representational strategies used to frame current migration debates as crises of identity, collective and individual. It features fourteen case-studies of varying sets of data including print media texts, TV broadcasts, online forums, politicians' speeches, legal and administrative texts, and oral narratives.

Emigration and immigration --- Refugees --- Displaced persons --- Persons --- Aliens --- Deportees --- Exiles --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- Social aspects. --- In mass media. --- Discourse analysis --- #SBIB:309H511 --- #SBIB:309H518 --- #SBIB:309H1024 --- #SBIB:39A6 --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Emigration and immigration in the press --- Social aspects --- In mass media --- Press coverage --- Verbale communicatie: algemene pragmatiek, stilistiek en teksttheorie, discoursanalyse --- Verbale communicatie: sociologie, antropologie, sociolinguistiek --- Mediaboodschappen met een ideologische en spiegelfunctie (beeld vrouw, migranten …) --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Discourse analysis. --- Press coverage.