Variation In Political Metaphor (discourse Approaches To Politics, Society And Culture)

The objective of this book is to understand variation in political metaphor. Political metaphors are distinctive and important because they are used to achieve political goals: to persuade, to shape expectations, to realize specific objectives and actions. The analyses in the book go beyond the mere identification of conceptual metaphors in discourse to show how political metaphors function in the real world. It starts from the finding that the same conceptual domains are used to characterize politics, political entities and political issues. Yet, the specific metaphors used to describe these conceptual domains often change. This book explores some of the reasons for this variation, including features of political leaders (e.g., their age and gender), countries, and other sociopolitical circumstances. This perspective yields a better understanding of the role(s) of metaphors in political discourse. DAPSAC 85 Variation in Political Metaphor 2 Editorial page 3 Title page 4 Copyright page 5 Table of contents 6 Introduction. Studying variation in political metaphor: From discourse analysis to experiment 8 1. Critical discourse analysis and conceptual metaphor theory as starting points 9 2. Variation in political metaphors 11 3. Structure of the book 13 References 17 Chapter 1. First Lady, Secretary of State and Presidential Candidate: A comparative study of the role-dependent use of metaphor in politics 20 1. Introduction 20 2. Politics, gender and metaphor 22 3. Historical background on Clinton’s political roles 25 4. Political corpora 25 5. Methods 27 6. Results 28 6.1 Time 28 6.2 Conceptual metaphor type 30 7. Conclusion 35 Acknowledgments 37 References 37 Appendix 1. Keyword list and word forms searched 41 Chapter 2. Fairies, Christmas miracles and sham marriages: A diachronic analysis of deliberate metaphors in Belgian political discourse 42 1. Introduction 42 2. Theoretical framework: CDA, CMT and DMT as starting points for political metaphor analysis 44 3. Data and method 45 3.1 Description of the corpus and political context 45 3.2 Methodology: The identification of potentially deliberate metaphors 49 4. Findings: Diachronic perspective on the variation of potentially deliberate metaphors in Belgian politics 54 5. Discussion 62 6. Concluding remarks 63 References 64 Chapter 3. The rhetorical use of political metaphor before, during and after the presidency: Television interviews with the former Croatian president 68 1. Introduction 68 2. Theoretical background 70 2.1 Metaphors in political discourse 70 2.2 A political topic as a person within the public image of politicians 70 3. Methods and data 72 3.1 Research design and research questions 72 3.2 Methodological approach 73 4. Findings 74 4.1 The choice of topics depending on a political phase 74 4.2 The relationship between the topics, metaphors and evaluation 75 5. Conclusion 87 References 89 Chapter 4. Knifed in the back: A metaphor analysis of party leadership takeovers 90 1. Introduction 90 2. Metaphor variation in leadership takeovers 91 3. Defining the genre: Leadership challenges 93 4. Data and methodological approach 96 5. Metaphor scenarios 97 5.1 Leadership is direction 97 5.2 Leadership is conflict 101 5.3 Leadership is a foundation 103 5.4 Leadership is physical labor 105 6. Novel metaphors 108 7. Conclusion 109 Data sources 111 References 111 Chapter 5. Greek metaphors in the fiscal straightjacket 114 1. Introduction 114 2. The fiscal straightjacket 116 3. Corpus and method 116 4. Quantitative analysis 118 5. Positive vs negative metaphoric frames 120 6. Comparison between positive and negative metaphoric frames 121 7. Qualitative analysis 122 8. Central themes and variation in political metaphor 128 8.1 Variation in non-linguistic metaphor 130 9. Clusters of metaphoric frames 130 10. Discussion 131 11. Conclusion 133 References 134 Speeches 137 Chapter 6. The use of sensorimotor-based concepts during and after presidential campaigns: Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump 138 1. Sensorimotor-based concepts (SBCs) a variation of political metaphors 138 2. SBCs as a non-exclusive persuasive device of the winning candidates 140 3. Salient SBCs used by Emmanuel Macron before and after his election 144 4. Salient SBCs used by Donald Trump before and after his election 148 5. Conclusion 152 References 153 Chapter 7. Variations of metaphors in party manifestos about EU finality: Assessing party positions through conceptual metaphors 158 1. Introduction 158 2. Metaphors and the study of party positions on European integration 160 3. Metaphors about the European finality debate: The research design 162 4. Analysis and results 169 4.1 Variation of metaphors: Interparty and cross-temporal comparison 170 5. Discussion 177 6. Conclusion 180 References 181 Chapter 8. Variation in methods for studying political metaphor: Comparing experiments and discourse analysis 184 1. Introduction 184 2. An empirical comparison of discourse-based and experimental approaches to studying political metaphor 185 3. The logic and mechanics of an experiment 188 3.1 The components of an experiment 188 3.2 Experimental choices 189 3.3 Experimental obligations 190 3.4 Summary 191 4. The logic and mechanics of discourse analysis 191 4.1 Similarities to experiments 191 4.2 Differences from experiments 193 4.3 Summary 195 5. A return to empirical similarities and differences 195 6. Limitations of experiments and discourse analysis: A crossroads, with avenues for future research 197 7. Conclusion 199 References 200 Conclusion: A Journey through variation in political metaphor 202 1. Political dimensions 203 2. Linguistic dimensions 204 3. Psychological dimensions 207 4. Methodological dimensions 210 References 212 Biographical notes 214 Index 218 "The objective of this book is to understand variation in political metaphor. Political metaphors are distinctive and important because they are used to achieve political goals: to persuade, to shape expectations, to realize specific objectives and actions. The analyses in the book go beyond the mere identification of conceptual metaphors in discourse to show how political metaphors function in the real world. It starts from the finding that the same conceptual domains are used to characterize politics, political entities and political issues. Yet, the specific metaphors used to describe these conceptual domains often change. This book explores some of the reasons for this variation, including features of political leaders (e.g., their age and gender), countries, and other sociopolitical circumstances. This perspective yields a better understanding of role(s) of metaphors in political discourse"-- Provided by publisher