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 book analyzes the rhetoric of speeches by major British or American politicians and shows how metaphor is used systematically to create political myths of monsters, villains and heroes. Metaphors are shown to interact with other figures of speech to communicate subliminal meanings by drawing on the unconscious emotional association of words.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781403946898
eBook ISBN
9780230501706
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Politicians and Rhetoric
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. 1 Persuasion, Legitimacy and Leadership
  6. 2 Churchill: Metaphor and Heroic Myth
  7. 3 Martin Luther King: Messianic Myth
  8. 4 Margaret Thatcher and the Myth of Boedicia
  9. 5 Clinton and the Rhetoric of Image Restoration
  10. 6 Tony Blair and Conviction Rhetoric
  11. 7 George W. Bush and the Rhetoric of Moral Accounting
  12. 8 Myth, Metaphor and Leadership
  13. Appendix 1 Churchill Corpus
  14. Appendix 2 Churchill’s Metaphors Classified
  15. Appendix 3 Martin Luther King Corpus
  16. Appendix 4 Martin Luther King’s Metaphors Classified
  17. Appendix 5 Margaret Thatcher’s Metaphors Classified
  18. Appendix 6 Clinton Corpus
  19. Appendix 7 Bill Clinton’s Metaphors Classified
  20. Appendix 8 Blair Corpus
  21. Appendix 9 Tony Blair’s Metaphors Classified by Source Domain
  22. Appendix 10
  23. Appendix 11 Metaphors of George Bush Junior and Senior Classified
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index of Conceptual Metaphors
  26. Index