Terrell Carver / Jernej Pikalo (eds.)

Political Language and Metaphor

Interpreting and changing the world
Herausgeber: Carver, Terrell; Pikalo, Jernej

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume develops new methodological approaches to understanding and analysing the use of metaphor in political science and international studies.

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This book is the first to develop new methodological approaches to understand and analyze the use of metaphor in political science and international relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780415417358
• ISBN-10: 041541735X
• Artikelnr.: 25006819

Autorenporträt

Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol, UK. Jernej Pikalo is Lecturer in Political Theory at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Science 1. The Ways of Stargazing: Newtonian Metaphoricity in
American Foreign Policy 2. Slippery Slopes in Political Discourse 3.
Mechanical Metaphors in Politics Part 2: Structures 4. Metaphors of Social
Order 5. Metaphors of Solidarity 6. Exploring the Metaphorical
(De-)Construction of Legitimacy Part 3: Europe 7. Identifying and Assessing
Metaphors 8. Discursive Metaphor Analysis 9. Political Protest and Metaphor
Part 4: Sexuality 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 Part 5: Policy 13.
Metaphor, Catachresis and Equivalence 14. Love and Life in Heartless Town
15. Cognition Meets Action Part 6: Language 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