1st Edition
Metaphor and Persuasion in Strategic Communication Sustainable Perspectives
This groundbreaking work adopts an alternative metaphor-based approach to challenge, unpack, and redefine our understanding of persuasion and strategic communication and the extents to which they shape political discourse. The book’s theoretical and methodological grounding in metaphor allows for an alternative perspective on strategic communication but also a robust discussion of both persuasion and other kinds of related discursive processes at work in political communication, including narrative, identification, and ideology. The volume integrates case studies from prominent political discourses, including those of George W. Bush, Jr., Tony Blair, and Barack Obama, to highlight the crucial role of persuasion management and sustainability in the public sphere and the ways in which it might inform political action and change in a positive way. Broadening our perception of the possibilities of persuasion and strategic communication, this dynamic volume is key reading for students and scholars in communication studies, political science, rhetoric, and cognitive linguistics.
Introduction: Persuasion and Sustainability: The Post-9/11 Arena
Chapter 1: ‘Words are Killers,’ alias Metaphor and Persuasion
Chapter 2: Persuasion Analysis: Introducing a Framework for Detecting Persuasion in Discourse
Chapter 3: The 4 Step Persuasion-oriented Procedure for the Identification of Strategic Metaphor in Text
Chapter 4: Quantitative and Preliminary Analysis I – II: Hypothesising Rhetorical Attitudes in Discourse
Chapter 5: Qualitative Textual Analysis II – Detecting Frames in Persuasion Building: the Contemporary Rhetoric of Conflict
Chapter 6: Qualitative Metaphor Analysis III – from Microtext to Macrotext: the Strategy of Fear
Chapter 7: Contrastive Analysis: Conflict vs. Inclusive Logic and Political Change
Chapter 8: Toward an Integrated Re-definition of Metaphor and Persuasion in Strategic Communication – ‘Transformational’ Power and Sustainable Perspectives
Biography
Federica Ferrari is Tenured Researcher in English Linguistics at the University of Bologna, School of Political Sciences and Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Her research predominantly focuses on persuasive phenomena within strategic communication and discourse analysis methodologies with a focus on conceptual metaphor as main tool of analysis and transformative device. Particular attention is given to cognitive, pragmatic and interactive features (relation between language and thought, discourse and action, and inter/intra disciplinary relations). She has developed a specific competence in conceptual metaphor as a text analysis method, a persuasive tool in political discourse and a transformative device in psycho-practice.
