Political Language and Metaphor: Interpreting and Changing the World

ISBN-13: 9780415417358 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 320 str.

Carver, Terrell

Opis

Develops methodological approaches to understand and analyse the use of metaphor in political science and international relations.

Spis treści

Part 1: Science  1. The Ways of Stargazing: Newtonian Metaphoricity in American Foreign Policy  2. Slippery Slopes in Political Discourse  3. Mechanical Metaphors in Politics  Part 2: Structures  4. Metaphors of Social Order  5. Metaphors of Solidarity  6. Exploring the Metaphorical (De-)Construction of Legitimacy  Part 3: Europe  7. Identifying and Assessing Metaphors  8. Discursive Metaphor Analysis  9. Political Protest and Metaphor  Part 4: Sexuality  10. Real Construction through Metaphorical Language: How Animals and Machines (Amongst other Metaphors) Maketh (Hu)Man (What ‘He’ Is)  11. Data, Anecdote and Metaphor in Gender Equality Policy-Making: Merging ‘Intellectual and Real World Mainstreaming’  12. Metaphors, Mini-Narratives and Foucauldian Discourse Theory  Part 5: Policy  13. Metaphor, Catachresis and Equivalence  14. Love and Life in Heartless Town  15. Cognition Meets Action  Part 6: Language  16. The Application of Conceptual Metaphor Theory to Political Discourse: Methodological Questions and Some Possible Solutions  17. Metaphorical Moves: ‘Scientific Expertise’ in Research Policy Studies  18. A Metaphorical Election Style