Query: metaphor in political speech

title: Comple Metaphor in Political Speech
abstract: This paper explores complex metaphor in which more than one conceptual metaphor are combined to understand a single metaphorical linguistic.

title: Framing and Reframing in Political Speech With Particular References to Cultural Deixis,Metaphor and Negation
abstract: In the study of the lexical meaning and discourse interpretation of political speech,utterance understanding can be combined with political stance,cultural context,and life experience on the basis of framing and reframing theories,which is advantageous for a better understanding of the speaker's intention and context.The State of the Union Addresses(2010 2011) given by American President Obama are taken as the research data to analyze three ways of framing and reframing in political speech,i.e.cultural deixis,metaphor,negation,and demonstrate their operation and functions.

title: Conceptual Metaphors Based on Binary Value in Political Speech: Oppositional Metaphor
abstract: Though conceptual metaphor theory works well with most metaphorical linguistic expressions found in ordinary language, it is not enough to explain all.

title: The metaphor in the political speech of Luiz Inacio "Lula" Da Silva"
abstract: This article has like theoretical base the Critical Analysis of the Speech of American line and like field discursive the political speech. The text treats to analyze the political speech of Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva, specifically the metaphors by him used, having in sight that such metaphors are in narrow relation with way as self evident like subject, and like member of the speech, by times representing to if same, other times to the another in the game of the multiples representations.

title: Cultural historical space of conceptual metaphor in Arabic political discourse (based on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's speech at a meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations)

title: On Metaphor's Translation in Political Speech
abstract: Based on conceptual metaphor theory and cognitive translation perspective,this paper does a preliminary study about metaphor translation in the five major speech delivered by U.S.President George W.Bush during the period of March 17 to May 1,2003,when the U.S.launched the war against Iraq and reaches the following conclusion: The conceptual metaphor theory and the cognitive translation has a certain guiding function for metaphor translation;the tranlatability of political speech structure of metaphors is higher than tenor metaphor(the container metaphor),etc.

title: A Corpus Based Pragmatic Analysis of the use of Metaphor in President UmaruYar Adua s May 29 th 2007 Inaugural Speech
abstract: This study is anchored on Odebunmi's Pragmatic contextual model and Lakoff and Johnson's theory of conceptual metaphor. Various intellectual arguments have been advanced as to the role of metaphor as an important pragmatic agent. The study is a corpus based pragmatic analysis which employs the quantitative method of data selection and analysis. The study employs the antconc digital software for data selection. As a result of the context sensitive nature of this study, ten lexical items were selected from the corpora and fed into the antconc concordance software. The results were then analysed based on their respective context of occurrence. This study is informed by the fact that presidential inaugural speeches as an aspect of political discourse have continued to attract academic interest. This is not unconnected with the fact that this category of discourse is actually employed to achieve certain communicative objectives. The presidential inaugural speech of UmaruYar' Adua constituted the body of the data for the research. The text was subjected to a pragmametaphoric analysis. The study discovered a rich deployment of lexical items whose pragmatic and metaphoric import can only be understood when the frequency and context of occurrence are considered. The study established that the president employed pragmatic metaphors to exemplify the past, the present and the anticipated future of the country. The choice of metaphors as a pragmatic tool in describing the state of the Nigerian nation both in terms of the economy and socio political situations of the country is equally established. The study established the use of developmental metaphor to appreciate the contributions of certain institutions to the achievements recorded across the country; historical metaphor is equally employed in describing the historical antecedents of the country as well as the effects on the Nigerian body polity, evaluative metaphor which evaluates the state of the Nigerian nation. Summarily, the study established that the metaphors used in the inaugural speeches are a function of Nigeria's socio political, economic and religious context.

title: Globality of Family Metaphor in Political Discourse
abstract: The article is devoted to the peculiarities of functioning of the family metaphor in English political discourse. Aristotle's theory on the three components of a public speech: pathos, logos and ethos is applied in modern political rhetoric, where "pathos" is achieved in addresses which abound in metaphors, and <ethos> is achieved in texts through the use of the family metaphor. Thus, the family metaphor plays a major role in public speaking.

title: Rhetorical Devices as the Strategy of Conceptualizing the Leadership Identity in American Political Speech
abstract: Political leadership was conceptualized in interactional between politician and citizens through the sociolinguistics term. This article aims to investigate the use of rhetorical devices and how it applied in the political speech. Political speech is characterized by rich information related to the condition of the government which reflects the social condition in the society. Focusing on the use of metaphor, euphemism, the rule of three, parallelism and pronoun, this study will explore how certain aspect of communication are affected by rhetorical devices based on Jones and Peccei (2004) theory.Glenn Back"s speech was selected as the subject of this study. This study usesa qualitative approach to create a depth explanation of the way the speaker uttered and implied the implicit meaning of rhetorical devices in the speech. The finding of this research is expected to provide the valuable insight of rhetorical speech within the discourse

title: Metaphor and its Persuasive Effects on Political Speech: A Discursive Study
abstract: This study investigated the ways in which two successful political leaders, Gandhi and Luther King, persuaded their followers to the best and the most important movement in their time. The language of politics is a complex issue which includes many strategies of language use to influence the receiver toward a desired attitude or thought. The uses of language tools or strategies differ based on the speakers" aim. In this study the researcher tried to only consider metaphor as a creative tool of language. The two texts, "Quit India" by Gandhi and "I have a dream" by Luther king, were analyzed by the metaphor frame work which was prepared by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) Based on Lakoff and Johnson, the metaphors can be categorized in to three categories: structural, orientational and ontological. This study showed how metaphorical sentences can be used in decoding facts in these two leaders" speeches. In conclusion, the researcher showed that the structural metaphors are the more frequently used but the influence of the orientational and ontological metaphors is stronger, because these metaphors are novel and new. It seems that the contribution of metaphorical sentences to EFL is related to text appreciation, text critics, as well as enhancement of language competence in political and other ESP fields.