Until a century ago, a metaphor was just a mere figure of speech, but since the development of discourse analysis a metaphor has become more than merely inciden
Far from being rhetorical ornaments, metaphors play a central role in public discourse, as they shape the structure of political categorisation and argumentatio
The objective of this book is to understand variation in political metaphor. Political metaphors are distinctive and important because they are used to achieve
Scholars in many of the disciplines surrounding politics explicitly utilize either a narrative perspective or a metaphor perspective (though rarely the two in c
This book analyzes the rhetoric of speeches by major British or American politicians and shows how metaphor is used systematically to create political myths of