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Politicians and Rhetoric
Jonathan Charteris-Black
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Description for Politicians and Rhetoric
Hardback. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFG; GTC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
Number of Pages
239
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403946898
SKU
V9781403946898
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99-15
About Jonathan Charteris-Black
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.
Reviews for Politicians and Rhetoric
'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 ... Read more