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Politicians and Rhetoric

The Persuasive Power of Metaphor

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  • © 2005

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  1. Jonathan Charteris-Black
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Persuasion, Legitimacy and Leadership

    • Jonathan Charteris-Black
    Pages 1-31

  3. Churchill: Metaphor and Heroic Myth

    • Jonathan Charteris-Black
    Pages 32-57

  4. Martin Luther King: Messianic Myth

    • Jonathan Charteris-Black
    Pages 58-85

  5. Margaret Thatcher and the Myth of Boedicia

    • Jonathan Charteris-Black
    Pages 86-114

  6. Clinton and the Rhetoric of Image Restoration

    • Jonathan Charteris-Black
    Pages 115-141

  7. Tony Blair and Conviction Rhetoric

    • Jonathan Charteris-Black
    Pages 142-168

  8. George W. Bush and the Rhetoric of Moral Accounting

    • Jonathan Charteris-Black
    Pages 169-196

  9. Myth, Metaphor and Leadership

    • Jonathan Charteris-Black
    Pages 197-212

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 213-239
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About this book

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 monsters, villains and heroes. Metaphors are shown to interact with other figures of speech to communicate subliminal meanings by drawing on the unconscious emotional association of words.

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'Overall...this book is highly recommended for readers interested in questions of political discourse or language, particularly given its methodological contribution to a field dominated by issues and texts of abstract theorisation.'- Lee Jarvis, Political Studies Review

'[T]he book raises major questions for discourse scholars. Regarding materials, Charteris-Black strives for balance between UK and US leaders from both the left and right, and it is refreshing to see a scholar who has no obvious axe to grind.' - Discourse & Communication

About the author

JONATHAN CHARTERIS-BLACK is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Surrey, UK. He has published extensively in the areas of figurative language, corpus linguistics, cognitive semantics and English for specific purposes. He is the author of Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2004.

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