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The political impact of metaphors

Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 5:2 (2015)

Editors

Julien Perrez | Université de Liège

Min Reuchamps | Université catholique de Louvain

[Metaphor and the Social World, 5:2] 2015. v, 130 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 28 September 2015

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.5.2

Table of Contents

Introduction
Special issue on the political impact of metaphors Julien Perrez and Min Reuchamps	165–176
Articles
Framing, metaphor and dialogue: A multimodal approach to party conference speeches Camille Debras and Emilie L’Hôte	177–204
Media rhetoric plays the market: The logic and power of metaphors behind the financial crises since 2006 Christ’l De Landtsheer	205–222
The “Belgian Tetris” Assessing the political impact of metaphors on citizens’ representations of Belgian federalism Julien Perrez and Min Reuchamps	223–244
How viruses and beasts affect our opinions (or not): The role of extendedness in metaphorical framing W. Gudrun Reijnierse, Christian Burgers, Tina Krennmayr and Gerard J. Steen	245–263
The allegorical character of political metaphors in discourse Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.	264–282
Book reviews
Review of Tay (2013): Metaphor in Psychotherapy. A Descriptive and Prescriptive Analysis Reviewed by Julia T. Williams Camus	283–289
Review of Nacey (2013): Metaphors in Learner English Reviewed by June Eyckmans	290–294

Subjects and metadata

Linguistics

Cognition and language

Discourse studies

Cognitive linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General