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Political Language and Metaphor Interpreting and changing the world
Metaphor in Political Language: Interpreting and Changing the World
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Editors’ Introduction Terrell Carver & Jernej Pikalo
Science
Chapter One
Dimitrios Akrivoulis
The Ways of Stargazing: Newtonian Metaphoricity in American Foreign Policy
Chapter Two
Dag Stenvoll
Slippery Slopes in Political Discourse
Chapter Three
Jernej Pikalo
Mechanical Metaphors in Politics
Structures
Chapter Four
Erik Ringmar
Metaphors of Social Order
Chapter Five
Iseult Honohan
Metaphors of Solidarity
Chapter Six
Steffen G. Scheneider
Exploring the Metaphorical (De-)Construction of Legitimacy: A Comparison of Legitimation Discourses in American and British Newspapers
Europe
Chapter Seven
Petr Drulák
Identifying and Assessing Metaphors: Discourse on EU Reform
Chapter Eight
Jan Helmig & Jochen Walter
Discursive Metaphor Analysis: (De)Construction(s) of Europe
Chapter Nine
Charlotte Fridolfsson
Political Protest and Metaphor
Sexuality
Chapter Ten
Terrell Carver
Real Construction through Metaphorical Language: How Animals and Machines (Amongst other Metaphors) Maketh (Hu)Man (What ‘He’ Is)
Chapter Eleven
Gemma M. Carney
Data, Anecdote and Metaphor in Gender Equality Policy-Making: Merging ‘Intellectual and Real World Mainstreaming’
Chapter Twelve
Véronique Mottier
Metaphors, Mini-Narratives and Foucauldian Discourse Theory
Policy
Chapter Thirteen
David Howarth & Steven Griggs
Metaphor, Catachresis and Equivalence: The Rhetoric of Freedom to Fly in the Struggle over Aviation Policy in the United Kingdom
Chapter Fourteen
Merlijn van Hulst
Love and Life in Heartless Town: Or, the Use of Metaphor in Local Planning
Chapter Fifteen
Dvora Yanow
Cognition Meets Action:Metaphors as Models of and Models for
Language
Chapter Sixteen
Alan Cienki
The Application of Conceptual Metaphor Theory to Political Discourse: Methodological Questions and Some Possible Solutions
Chapter Seventeen
Philippe Sormani & Martin Benninghoff
Metaphorical Moves: ‘Scientific Expertise’ in Research Policy Studies
Chapter Eighteen
Dieter Vertessen &Christ’l de Landtsheer
A Metaphorical Election Style: Use of Metaphor at Election Time
Editors’ Reflections Terrell Carver & Jernej Pikalo
Further Reading
Index
Biography
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.
