Political Metaphor Analysis

Andreas Musolff is Director of Research at the University of East Anglia, UK.

• Acknowledgements 1.Introduction2. Political conflict as war2.1. Metaphors and concepts2.2. Inferences from metaphors in relation to conceptual domains2.3. Conceptual domains and metaphor corpora2.4. Discursive frames in metaphor corpora2.5. Summary2. Metaphors, cognitive models and scenarios3.1. Political metaphor and FAMILY models3.2. Two metaphor models - one domain?3.3. Family scenarios3.4. Further scenario functions3.5. Summary4. The life and gimes of a metaphor scenario: Britain at the heart of Europe4.1. Memories of a metaphor4.2. The emergence of a metaphor scenario4.3. Scenario development4.4. Scenarios and blends4.5. Summary5. The belly and the body politic5.1. Memories of a fable5.2. The body politic tradition5.3. Body politic, corps politique, politischer Korper: Traces of national discourse tradition in metaphor usage. 5.4. Historical explanations for the development of metaphor scenario5.5. Summary6. Parasites, scrounging, and the question of deliberate metaphor6.1. Parasites, metaphor and etymology6.2. Metaphorizations 'back and forth'6.3. Metaphor and racism6.4. Immigrants as 'parasites'6.5. Metaphors as deliberately chosen scenario elements6.6 Summary7. Nations as persons: collective identity-construction7.1. Introduction: speaking for a nation7.2. From 'extended hands' to a 'new Nakba' in eight speeches7.3. Nations as persons with social identities7.4. Two case summaries7.5. Summary8. Understanding political metaphor8.1. The unpredictability of metaphor as understanding8.2. Interpretations of the NATION AS BODY metaphor8.3. Interpretations of the NATIONS AS PERSON metaphor8.4 SummaryAppendix IAppendix IIAppendix IIINotesBibliographyIndex

An engaging and provocative text ... I would recommend it not only to researchers of political discourse, but also to those who are interested in the persuasive power of metaphor in audience reception.