Politicians and Rhetoric
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Politicians and Rhetoric

The Persuasive Power of Metaphor

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eBook - PDF

Politicians and Rhetoric

The Persuasive Power of Metaphor

About this book

This analysis of the rhetoric of nine successfully persuasive politicians explains how their use of language created credible and consistent stories about themselves and the social world they inhabit. It explores their use of metaphors, their myths and how language analysis helps us to understand how politicians are able to persuade.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780230251649
eBook ISBN
9780230319899
Edition
2
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Politicians and Rhetoric
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. List of Tables
  6. Preface
  7. 1 Persuasion, Speech Making and Rhetoric
  8. 2 Metaphor in Political Discourse
  9. 3 Winston Churchill: Metaphor and Heroic Myth
  10. 4 Martin Luther King: Messianic Myth
  11. 5 Enoch Powell: the Myth of the Oracle
  12. 6 Ronald Reagan and Romantic Myth: ‘From the Swamp to the Stars’
  13. 7 Margaret Thatcher and the Myth of Boudiccauyj
  14. 8 Clinton and the Rhetoric of Image Restoration
  15. 9 Tony Blair and Conviction Rhetoric
  16. 10 George Bush and the Rhetoric of Moral Accounting
  17. 11 Barack Obama and the Myth of the American Dream
  18. 12 Myth, Metaphor and Leadership
  19. Appendix 1 Churchill Corpus
  20. Appendix 2 Churchill’s Metaphors Classified by Type/Source Domain
  21. Appendix 3 Luther King Corpus
  22. Appendix 4 Luther King’s Metaphors Classified by Type/Source Domain
  23. Appendix 5 Powell Corpus
  24. Appendix 6 Powell’s Metaphors Classified by Type/Source Domain
  25. Appendix 7 Reagan Corpus
  26. Appendix 8 Reagan’s Metaphors Classified by Type/Source Domain
  27. Appendix 9 Thatcher Corpus
  28. Appendix 10 Thatcher’s Metaphors Classified by Type/Source Domain
  29. Appendix 11 Clinton Corpus
  30. Appendix 12 Clinton’s Metaphors Classified by Type/Source Domain
  31. Appendix 13 Blair Corpus
  32. Appendix 14 Blair’s Metaphors Classified by Type/Source Domain
  33. Appendix 15 Bush Corpus
  34. Appendix 16 Metaphors of George Bush Junior and Senior
  35. Appendix 17 Obama Corpus
  36. Appendix 18 Obama’s MetaphorsC lassified by Type/Source Domain
  37. Bibliography
  38. Index of Conceptual Metaphors
  39. General Index