Politicians and Rhetoric - The Persuasive Power of Metaphor

Zusatztext 'Overall...this book is highly recommended for readers interested in questions of political discourse or language, particularly given its methodological contribution to a field dominated by issues and texts of abstract theorisation.'- Lee Jarvis, Political Studies Review '[T]he book raises major questions for discourse scholars. Regarding materials, Charteris-Black strives for balance between UK and US leaders from both the left and right, and it is refreshing to see a scholar who has no obvious axe to grind.' - Discourse & Communication Informationen zum Autor JONATHAN CHARTERIS-BLACK is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Surrey, UK. He has published extensively in the areas of figurative language, corpus linguistics, cognitive semantics and English for specific purposes. He is the author of Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis , published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2004. Klappentext This book analyzes the rhetoric of speeches by major British or American politicians and shows how metaphor is used systematically to create political myths of monsters, villains and heroes. Metaphors are shown to interact with other figures of speech to communicate subliminal meanings by drawing on the unconscious emotional association of words. Zusammenfassung This book analyzes the rhetoric of speeches by major British or American politicians and shows how metaphor is used systematically to create political myths of monsters! villains and heroes. Metaphors are shown to interact with other figures of speech to communicate subliminal meanings by drawing on the unconscious emotional association of words. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Persuasion, Legitimacy and Leadership Churchill: Metaphor and Heroic Myth Martin Luther King: Messianic Myth Margaret Thatcher and the Myth of Boedicia Clinton and the Rhetoric of Image Restoration Tony Blair and Conviction Rhetoric George W.Bush and the Rhetoric of Moral Accounting Myth, Metaphor and Leadership Appendices 1-11: Corpora and Classification of Metaphors Bibliography Index...

Product details

• Authors: J Charteris-Black, J. Charteris-Black, Jonathan Charteris-Black
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.11.2004
• EAN: 9781403946898
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-4689-8
• No. of pages: 251
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, B, Medienwissenschaften, Soziolinguistik, Linguistics, Political Science, Communication, Sociolinguistics, Political science & theory, Semiotics, Media and Communication, Communication Studies, Applied Linguistics, Language: reference & general, Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Politikwissenschaft und politische Theorie