Identity, Narrative and Metaphor [electronic resource] : A Corpus-Based Cognitive Analysis of New Labour Discourse /
L'Hôte, E.author.
This book shows that the discourse of the Labour party 1994-2007, revolving around three key concepts of identity, narrative and metaphor, not only reflected new Labour's policy and organisational changes, but that it was also an essential part of its successful strategies of renovation and of power legitimation.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 General Introduction; 1.1 A corpus-based cognitive analysis of political discourse; 1.2 The relevance of new Labour in the study of political discourse; 1.3 Book outline; 2 Designing a Corpus-Based Cognitive Analysis of Political Discourse; 2.1 Cognitive linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis; 2.1.1 Elements of cognitive linguistics; 2.1.2 What is Critical Discourse Analysis?; 2.1.3 C for critical?; 2.1.4 C for cognitive?; 2.2 What corpus linguistics can do for a cognitive analysis of discourse; 2.2.1 Basic assumptions
2.2.2 Corpus linguistics and qualitative analysis2.2.3 Corpus linguistics and discourse analysis; 2.3 Corpus linguistics and cognitive linguistics; 2.3.1 Corpus linguistics and the study of conceptual metaphors; 2.3.2 Metaphor identification procedures; 2.4 Corpus data; 2.5 Quantitative methods; 2.5.1 WMatrix: concordance, keyness and corpus tagging; 2.5.2 An explanatory note on statistics; 2.6 Step-by-step process of analysis; Part I: The New Labour Identity; 3 What's in a Name? Party Names and Political Principles; 3.1 Initial analyses; 3.2 Party names and party identity
3.3 Principles, goals and means in new Labour discourse3.3.1 New labour, no labour?; 3.3.2 Of values and consensus; 4 Reclaiming Ground on the National Scene - Fighting Stereotypes; 4.1 Politics and stereotypes; 4.1.1 Appropriation as a discourse strategy against pathological stereotypes; 4.1.2 Reciprocation as a discourse strategy against pathological stereotypes; Part II: New Labour and the Discourse of Change; 5 Can Things Only Get Better? Internal Change in New Labour Discourse; 5.1 New Labour as the agent of positive change; 5.1.1 Newness and futurity in new Labour discourse
5.1.2 New Labour discourse and the past5.2 Internal change and progress in new Labour discourse; 5.2.1 Progress is more, progress is better; 5.2.2 Progress, verticality and upward movement; 5.3 New Labour's journey of blended paths; 5.3.1 Journey metaphors; 5.3.2 Blended paths; 6 External Change and Globalisation in New Labour Discourse; 6.1 From external change to globalisation; 6.1.1 The nature of external change; 6.1.2 Quantifying globalisation; 6.1.3 Semantic environments; 6.2 New Labour discourse and globalism; 6.2.1 The inevitability of globalisation
6.2.2 Globalisation and the spread of progress6.3 Beyond external change and globalisation: new Labour's no-alternative choices; 6.3.1 Mouffe and new Labour; 6.3.2 Choice; 6.3.3 Or; 6.4 Conclusion; 7 Labour after Blair; 7.1 Post-Blair Labour; 7.1.1 Corpus description; 7.1.2 Labour is ""not for turning""; 7.2 The Labour identity after Blair; 7.2.1 Talking politics; 7.2.2 Toughness and efficiency; 7.2.3 Stereotypes that stick; 7.3 Change after the financial crisis; 7.3.1 From never-ending progress to the Broken Society; 7.3.2 Global issues; 7.4 Conclusion; 8 General Conclusion; 8.1 Summary
8.2 Prospects
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book shows that the discourse of the Labour party 1994-2007, revolving around three key concepts of identity, narrative and metaphor, not only reflected new Labour's policy and organisational changes, but that it was also an essential part of its successful strategies of renovation and of power legitimation.
Labour Party (Great Britain)
Discourse analysis.
Sociolinguistics.
Political science.
Communication.
Applied linguistics.
Discourse Analysis.
Sociolinguistics.
Political Science.
Media Studies.
Applied Linguistics.
Communication Studies.