Politicians and Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of Metaphor - Softcover

Charteris-Black, J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230019811 ISBN 13: 9780230019812

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

JONATHAN CHARTERIS-BLACK is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Surrey, UK. He has published extensively in the areas of figurative language, corpus linguistics, cognitive semantics and English for specific purposes. He is the author of Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2004.

Review:

'Overall...this book is highly recommended for readers interested in questions of political discourse or language, particularly given its methodological contribution to a field dominated by issues and texts of abstract theorisation.'- Lee Jarvis, Political Studies Review

'[T]he book raises major questions for discourse scholars. Regarding materials, Charteris-Black strives for balance between UK and US leaders from both the left and right, and it is refreshing to see a scholar who has no obvious axe to grind.' - Discourse & Communication

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0230019811
• ISBN 13: 9780230019812
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 251