Political Language and Metaphor

<p>Until a century ago, a metaphor was just a mere figure of speech, but since the development of discourse analysis a metaphor has become more than merely incidental to the content of the arguments or findings. Students and scholars in political studies know the importance of metaphors in electoral and policy-related politics, coming across metaphors that are, knowingly or unknowingly, influencing our perception of politics.</p><p>This book is the first to develop new methodological approaches to understand and analyse the use of metaphor in political science and international relations. It does this by:</p><ul> <li>Combining theory with case studies in order to advance substantive work in politics and international relations that focuses on metaphor</li> <li>Expands the range of empirical case studies that employ this category descriptively and also in explanatory logic</li> <li>Advances research that investigates the role of metaphor in empirical and discourse-based methodologies, thus building on results from other disciplines, notably linguistics and hermeneutic philosophy.</li> </ul><p>This innovative study will be of interest to students and researchers of politics, international relations and communication studies.</p> <p><strong>Part 1: Science </strong>1. The Ways of Stargazing: Newtonian Metaphoricity in American Foreign Policy 2. Slippery Slopes in Political Discourse 3. Mechanical Metaphors in Politics <strong>Part 2: Structures </strong>4. Metaphors of Social Order 5.<em> </em>Metaphors of Solidarity<em> </em>6.<em> </em>Exploring the Metaphorical (De-)Construction of Legitimacy <strong>Part 3: Europe </strong>7. Identifying and Assessing Metaphors 8. Discursive Metaphor Analysis 9. Political Protest and Metaphor<em> </em><strong>Part 4: Sexuality </strong>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 <strong>Part 5: Policy </strong>13. Metaphor, Catachresis and Equivalence 14. Love and Life in Heartless Town 15. Cognition Meets Action <strong>Part 6: Language</strong> 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</p>