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By Terrell Carver, Jernej Pikalo
Until a century in the past, a metaphor used to be only a mere determine of speech, yet because the improvement of discourse research a metaphor has turn into greater than in basic terms incidental to the content material of the arguments or findings. scholars and students in political reports be aware of the significance of metaphors in electoral and policy-related politics, discovering metaphors which are, knowingly or unknowingly, influencing our belief of politics.
This ebook is the 1st to strengthen new methodological techniques to appreciate and examine using metaphor in political technology and diplomacy. It does this by:
- Combining idea with case reports to be able to boost major paintings in politics and diplomacy that specializes in metaphor
- Expands the diversity of empirical case experiences that hire this class descriptively and in addition in explanatory logic
- Advances study that investigates the position of metaphor in empirical and discourse-based methodologies, hence construction on effects from different disciplines, particularly linguistics and hermeneutic philosophy.
This cutting edge research may be of curiosity to scholars and researchers of politics, diplomacy and verbal exchange studies.
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The choice then became almost compelling, as opting for any other alternative project would ultimately lead to ‘gradual withdrawals’ and ‘vital sacrifices’ (US Department of State 1950: 47). E. Akrivoulis to follow the foreign policy project appropriate for the leader of the ‘free world’ was always already preconditioned by America’s imaginative schematisation of its role as its gravitational centre. Finally, it was upon such a Newtonian imaginary that the United States could try out its power to act, as well as measure the scope of its possibility to act.
The slippery slope image works metaphorically in at least two ways. First, it sets up the physical world of solid objects as an analogy to political matters, implying that politics is like the physical world: if you ‘move’ something in the world of politics, like making or changing a particular law or policy, other things will inevitably follow – just as if you put a physical object on a sliding plate. This naturalising image of politics simplifies the complexity of cause and effect in the social world, compared to the natural world and its more mechanic, more predictable patterns of causality.
He furthermore suggests that text analysis can be organised under the following Slippery slopes in political discourse 37 four headings: vocabulary, grammar, cohesion, and text structure. Metaphor is to be analysed as part of the vocabulary, that is, how individual words have specific political and ideological significance. Van Dijk (1993) makes a similar distinction between analysis of context (such as access patterns, setting, and participant positions and roles) and analysis of the text itself (such as its topics, style, and rhetoric – including metaphor).