Routledge, 2008. — xvi, 296 pages. — (Routledge innovations in political theory). — ISBN 0-203-93123-8; ISBN10: 0-203-93123-8.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.
This book is the first to develop new methodological approaches to understand and analyse the use of metaphor in political science and international relations. It does this by:
Combining theory with case studies in order to advance substantive work in politics and international relations that focuses on metaphor
Expands the range of empirical case studies that employ this category descriptively and also in explanatory logic
Advances research that investigates the role of metaphor in empirical and discourse-based methodologies, thus building on results from other disciplines, notably linguistics and hermeneutic philosophy.
This innovative study will be of interest to students and researchers of politics, international relations and communication studies.Science
The ways of stargazing: Newtonian metaphoricity in American foreign policy
Slippery slopes in political discourse
Mechanical metaphors in politics
Structures
Metaphors of social order
Metaphors of solidarity
Exploring the metaphorical (de-)construction of legitimacy: a comparison of legitimation discourses in American and British newspapers
Europe
Identifying and assessing metaphors: discourse on EU reform
Discursive metaphor analysis: (de)construction(s) of Europe
Political protest and metaphor
Sexuality
Real construction through metaphorical language: how animals and machines (amongst other metaphors) maketh (hu)man (what ‘he’ is)
Data, anecdote and metaphor in gender equality policy-making: merging ‘intellectual and real world mainstreaming’
Metaphors, mini-narratives and Foucauldian discourse theory
Policy
Metaphor, catachresis and equivalence: the rhetoric of Freedom to Fly in the struggle over aviation policy in the United Kingdom
Love and life in Heart-less Town: or, the use of metaphor in local planning
Cognition meets action: metaphors as models ofand models for
Language
The application of conceptual metaphor theory to political discourse: methodological questions and some possible solutions
Metaphorical moves: ‘scientific expertise’ in research policy studies
A metaphorical election style: use of metaphor at election time Reflections
