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Metaphor and Political Discourse: Analogical Reasoning in Debates about Europe

By Andreas Musolff

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
1403933898, 9781403933898, 9780230504516
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
826 kB (845876 bytes)
Pages
224\220
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Andreas Musolff provides an analysis of the function of metaphor in political discourse, based on material from an extensive corpus of British and German press coverage of EU politics between 1989 and 2001.The analysis of distributions of "metaphor scenarios" in the two corpus samples reveals differences in attitude and argumentative tendencies and leads to a refinement of cognitive metaphor theory. The ethical dimension of metaphor in politics is further explored with reference to Hobbes' Leviathan .

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