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In:Variation in Political Metaphor
Edited by Julien Perrez, Min Reuchamps and Paul H. Thibodeau
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 85] 2019
► pp. 1–12

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Introduction: Studying variation in political metaphor

From discourse analysis to experiment

Published online: 6 August 2019
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Abstract
The introduction offers an overview of the literature on political metaphors, with Critical Discourse Analysis and Conceptual Metaphor Theory as starting points. It then presents the main objective of the book, viz. to study the variation in political metaphor, based on the analyses of actual data, from diverse corpora, political actors and countries. On this basis, the threefold approach to variation in political metaphor is presented: diachronic, functional and methodological variations.
Article outline
  • 1.Critical discourse analysis and conceptual metaphor theory as starting points
  • 2.Variation in political metaphors
  • 3.Structure of the book
  • References
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