Politicians and Rhetoric

The Persuasive Power of Metaphor

J. Charteris-Black

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

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.

Table of contents

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