Politics, Language and Metaphor

This unique book is the first to develop new methodological approaches to understand and analyze the use of metaphor in political science and international studies.Until a century ago, a metaphor was just a mere figure of speech, but since the development of discourse analysis a metaphor has become more than merely incidental to the content of the arguments or findings.Students and scholars in political studies know the importance of metaphors in electoral and policy-related politics, coming across metaphors that are, knowingly or unknowingly, influencing our perception of politics.The text combines theory with case studies in order to: advance substantive work in politics and international studies that focuses on metaphor, and to expand the range of empirical case studies that employ this category descriptively and also in explanatory logic offer methodological work in politics and international studies that investigates the role of metaphor in empirical and discourse-based methodologies, thus building on work done in other disciplines, notably linguistics and hermeneutic philosophy. Politics, Language and Metaphor will be of interest to students and researchers of politics, international relations and communication studies.Carver, Terrell is the author of 'Politics, Language and Metaphor' with ISBN 9780415417358 and ISBN 041541735X.