rent-now

Rent More, Save More! Use code: ECRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

9781441198174

Political Metaphor Analysis

by
  • ISBN13:

    9781441198174

  • ISBN10:

    1441198172

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2016-08-25
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Purchase Benefits

  • Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
    Your order must be $35 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer.
  • eCampus.com Logo Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
List Price: $160.00 Save up to $127.04
  • Rent Book $114.00
    Add to Cart Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping

    TERM
    PRICE
    DUE
    USUALLY SHIPS IN 3-5 BUSINESS DAYS
    *This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping cart.

How To: Textbook Rental

Looking to rent a book? Rent Political Metaphor Analysis [ISBN: 9781441198174] for the semester, quarter, and short term or search our site for other textbooks by Musolff, Andreas. Renting a textbook can save you up to 90% from the cost of buying.

Summary

Political Metaphor Analysis provides an innovative approach to the study of metaphor in political discourse. It presents empirical analyses of metaphor use based on a large corpus of political metaphors and links these analyses to theoretical positions and assessing their limitations and perspectives for further exploration. In particular the 'classic' conceptual metaphor analysis, as pioneered by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and expanded and amended over the past 35 years, is critically examined with regard to empirical aspects such as variation, historicity, pragmatic exploitation, comprehension and interpretation of metaphors.

Political metaphors and related figurative discourse tools such as metonymies 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.

Proposed as a central new analytical category, the notion of “metaphor scenarios” is tested against various sub-sets of data. It allows us to link hypothesised conceptual metaphors to narrative, argumentative and evaluative patterns in actual discourse and understanding, so that their cognitive significance can be more reliably gauged and theoretically modelled.

Author Biography

Andreas Musolff is Director of Research at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Political conflict as war
2. Metaphors, cognitive models and scenarios
3. The life and gimes of a metaphor scenario: Britain at the heart of Europe
4. The belly and the body politic
5. Parasites, scrounging, and deliberate metaphors
6. Nations as persons: collective identity-construction
7. Interpreting political metaphors
Bibliography
Index

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program