Political language and metaphor
Subtitle: interpreting and changing the world
By: edited by Terrell Carver and Jernej Pikalo.
Contributors: Carver, Terrell.; Pikalo, Jernej.
Series: Routledge innovations in political theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780415417358; 9780203931233
Subjects: Communication in politics; Metaphor -- Political aspects
Notes: Simultaneously published in the United Kingdom by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: He ways of stargazing : Newtonian metaphoricity in American foreign policy / Dimitrios Akrivoulis; title: Slippery slopes in political discourse / Dag Stenvoll; title: Mechanical metaphors in politics / Jernej Pikalo; title: Metaphors of social order / Erik Ringmar; title: Metaphors of solidarity / Iseult Honohan; title: Exploring the metaphorical (de-)construction of legitimacy : a comparison of legitimation discourses in American and British newspapers / Steffen G. Scheneider; title: Identifying and assessing metaphors: discourse on EU reform / Petr Drulák; title: Discursive metaphor analysis : (de)construction(s) of Europe / Jan Helmig & Jochen Walter; title: Political protest and metaphor / Charlotte Fridolfsson; title: Real construction through metaphorical language : how animals and machines (amongst other metaphors) maketh (hu)man (what he is) / Terrell Carver; title: Data, anecdote and metaphor in gender equality policy-making : merging intellectual and real world mainstreaming / Gemma M. Carney; title: Metaphors, mini-narratives and Foucauldian discourse theory policy / Véronique Mottier; title: Metaphor, catachresis and equivalence : the rhetoric of freedom to fly in the struggle over aviation policy in the United Kingdom / David Howarth & Steven Griggs; title: Love and life in heartless town : or, the use of metaphor in local planning / Merlijn van Hulst; title: Cognition meets action : metaphors as models of and models for language / Dvora Yanow; title: The application of conceptual metaphor theory to political discourse : methodological questions and some possible solutions / Alan Cienki; title: Metaphorical moves : scientific expertise in research policy studies / Philippe Sormani & Martin Benninghoff; title: A metaphorical election style : use of metaphor at election time / Dieter Vertessen & Christl de Landtsheer; title: Editors reflections / Terrell Carver & Jernej Pikalo.