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Metaphor and political discourse : analogical reasoning in debates about Europe

Title: Metaphor and political discourse : analogical reasoning in debates about Europe / Andreas Musolff.
Author: Musolff, Andreas.
Publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

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viii, 210 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Drawing on a very large bilingual corpus, Andreas Musolff 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's concept of metaphor in Leviathan, he highlights the ethical dimension of metaphor in politics."--Jacket.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-205) and indexes.

Contents

1. Introduction : metaphor and politics -- 2. Conceptual domains and scenarios -- 3. Analogical argument in political discourse -- 4. Corpora and the semantics of metaphor -- 5. Europe as a body politic -- 6. Discourse history in a metaphor corpus -- 7. Metaphor negotiation -- 8. Metaphor as deception -- 9. Open and closed metaphor scenarios -- Index : metaphor scenarios and their conceptual elements.

ISBN

1403933898
9781403933898

LCCN

2004046495

OCLC

ocm54685510
54685510
SCSB-8809510

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Princeton University Library