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208 pages |
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text |
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computer |
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online resource |
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Acknowledgements 1.Introduction 2. Political conflict as war 2.1. Metaphors and concepts 2.2. Inferences from metaphors in relation to conceptual domains 2.3. Conceptual domains and metaphor corpora 2.4. Discursive frames in metaphor corpora 2.5. Summary 2. Metaphors, cognitive models and scenarios 3.1. Political metaphor and FAMILY models 3.2. Two metaphor models - one domain? 3.3. Family scenarios 3.4. Further scenario functions 3.5. Summary 4. The life and gimes of a metaphor scenario: Britain at the heart of Europe 4.1. Memories of a metaphor 4.2. The emergence of a metaphor scenario 4.3. Scenario development 4.4. Scenarios and blends 4.5. Summary 5. The belly and the body politic 5.1. Memories of a fable 5.2. The body politic tradition 5.3. Body politic, corps politique, politischer Korper: Traces of national discourse tradition in metaphor usage. 5.4. Historical explanations for the development of metaphor scenario 5.5. Summary 6. Parasites, scrounging, and the question of deliberate metaphor 6.1. Parasites, metaphor and etymology 6.2. Metaphorizations 'back and forth' 6.3. Metaphor and racism 6.4. Immigrants as 'parasites' 6.5. Metaphors as deliberately chosen scenario elements 6.6 Summary 7. Nations as persons: collective identity-construction 7.1. Introduction: speaking for a nation 7.2. From 'extended hands' to a 'new Nakba' in eight speeches 7.3. Nations as persons with social identities 7.4. Two case summaries 7.5. Summary 8. Understanding political metaphor 8.1. The unpredictability of metaphor as understanding 8.2. Interpretations of the NATION AS BODY metaphor 8.3. Interpretations of the NATIONS AS PERSON metaphor 8.4 Summary Appendix I Appendix II Appendix III Notes Bibliography Index |
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400 annual accesses. UkHlHU |
| ISBN |
9781441197009 |
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