Variation in Political Metaphor.

Intro -- Variation in Political Metaphor -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction. Studying variation in political metaphor: From discourse analysis to experiment -- 1. Critical discourse analysis and conceptual metaphor theory as starting points -- 2. Variation in political metaphors -- 3. Structure of the book -- References -- Chapter 1. First Lady, Secretary of State and Presidential Candidate: A comparative study of the role-dependent use of metaphor in politics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Politics, gender and metaphor -- 3. Historical background on Clinton's political roles -- 4. Political corpora -- 5. Methods -- 6. Results -- 6.1 Time -- 6.2 Conceptual metaphor type -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix 1. Keyword list and word forms searched -- Chapter 2. Fairies, Christmas miracles and sham marriages: A diachronic analysis of deliberate metaphors in Belgian political discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical framework: CDA, CMT and DMT as starting points for political metaphor analysis -- 3. Data and method -- 3.1 Description of the corpus and political context -- 3.2 Methodology: The identification of potentially deliberate metaphors -- 4. Findings: Diachronic perspective on the variation of potentially deliberate metaphors in Belgian politics -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 3. The rhetorical use of political metaphor before, during and after the presidency: Television interviews with the former Croatian president -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 2.1 Metaphors in political discourse -- 2.2 A political topic as a person within the public image of politicians -- 3. Methods and data -- 3.1 Research design and research questions -- 3.2 Methodological approach -- 4. Findings.

4.1 The choice of topics depending on a political phase -- 4.2 The relationship between the topics, metaphors and evaluation -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4. Knifed in the back: A metaphor analysis of party leadership takeovers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metaphor variation in leadership takeovers -- 3. Defining the genre: Leadership challenges -- 4. Data and methodological approach -- 5. Metaphor scenarios -- 5.1 Leadership is direction -- 5.2 Leadership is conflict -- 5.3 Leadership is a foundation -- 5.4 Leadership is physical labor -- 6. Novel metaphors -- 7. Conclusion -- Data sources -- References -- Chapter 5. Greek metaphors in the fiscal straightjacket -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The fiscal straightjacket -- 3. Corpus and method -- 4. Quantitative analysis -- 5. Positive vs negative metaphoric frames -- 6. Comparison between positive and negative metaphoric frames -- 7. Qualitative analysis -- 8. Central themes and variation in political metaphor -- 8.1 Variation in non-linguistic metaphor -- 9. Clusters of metaphoric frames -- 10. Discussion -- 11. Conclusion -- References -- Speeches -- Chapter 6. The use of sensorimotor-based concepts during and after presidential campaigns: Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump -- 1. Sensorimotor-based concepts (SBCs) a variation of political metaphors -- 2. SBCs as a non-exclusive persuasive device of the winning candidates -- 3. Salient SBCs used by Emmanuel Macron before and after his election -- 4. Salient SBCs used by Donald Trump before and after his election -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7. Variations of metaphors in party manifestos about EU finality: Assessing party positions through conceptual metaphors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metaphors and the study of party positions on European integration -- 3. Metaphors about the European finality debate: The research design.

4. Analysis and results -- 4.1 Variation of metaphors: Interparty and cross-temporal comparison -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8. Variation in methods for studying political metaphor: Comparing experiments and discourse analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An empirical comparison of discourse-based and experimental approaches to studying political metaphor -- 3. The logic and mechanics of an experiment -- 3.1 The components of an experiment -- 3.2 Experimental choices -- 3.3 Experimental obligations -- 3.4 Summary -- 4. The logic and mechanics of discourse analysis -- 4.1 Similarities to experiments -- 4.2 Differences from experiments -- 4.3 Summary -- 5. A return to empirical similarities and differences -- 6. Limitations of experiments and discourse analysis: A crossroads, with avenues for future research -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Conclusion: A Journey through variation in political metaphor -- 1. Political dimensions -- 2. Linguistic dimensions -- 3. Psychological dimensions -- 4. Methodological dimensions -- References -- Biographical notes -- Index.

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