Research Catalog

Title

Metaphorical world politics / edited by Francis A. Beer and Christ'l de Landtsheer.

Publication

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Beer, Francis A.
• Landtsheer, Christ'l de

Description

x, 342 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Rhetoric and public affairs series

Uniform Title

Rhetoric and public affairs series

Subject

• Since 1989
• Communication in politics
• Metaphor > Political aspects
• World politics > 1989-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-314) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Metaphors, Politics, and World Politics / Francis A. Beer, Christ'l De Landtsheer -- Metaphorical Democracy -- Embodied Meaning in American Public Discourse during the Cold War / Richard B. Gregg -- Democracy, War, and Decivilizing Metaphors of American Insecurity / Robert L. Ivie -- The Causal Power of Metaphor: Cueing Democratic Identities in Russia and Beyond / Richard D. Anderson, Jr. -- Metaphorical War and Peace -- Sports Metaphors and Public Policy: The Football Theme in Desert Storm Discourse / Dale A. Herbeck -- Paths through the Minefields of Foreign Policy Space: Practical Reasoning in U.S. Senate Discourse about Cambodia / Francis A. Beer, G. Robert Boynton -- Talking about Srebrenica: Dutch Elites and Dutchbat. How Metaphors Change during Crisis / Christ'l De Landtsheer, Ilse De Vrij -- Metaphorical Globalization -- The Power of Metaphors and the Metaphors of Power: The United States in the Cold War and After / Keith L. Shimko -- Metaphors of U.S. Global Leadership: The Psychological Dynamics of Metaphorical Thinking during the Carter Years / Jerel A. Rosati, Steven J. Campbell -- Megametaphorics: Rereading Globalization and Virtualization as Rhetorics of World Politics / Timothy W. Luke -- Conclusion: Metaphorical World Politics / Francis A. Beer, Christ'l De Landtsheer -- Metaphorical Mobilization -- Average Metaphor Coefficient (C) and Integrative Complexity (CC) before (T1) and after (T2) the Fall of Srebrenica in Dutch Governmental Letters (G) and Dutch Newspaper Editorials (P), 1992-97.

ISBN

0870137263 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004012349^^

OCLC

• 55511436
• SCSB-11426382

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library