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Metaphor as an Element of Persuasion in Political Discourse

open access: yesCommunications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 2012
This paper deals with the concept of metaphor as manifested in political discourse. The focus of the paper is on how metaphors achieve their persuasive function in political discourse and how politicians make use of metaphors.
Marek Hampl
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Metaphor and metonymy in Chinese and American political cartoons (2018–2019) about the Sino-US trade conflict

Pragmatics & Cognition, 2020
Political cartoons make meaning by drawing on scenarios that must be immediately recognizable by their intended audience. Crucial meaning-making mechanisms in these scenarios are verbo-visual ensembles of metaphors and metonymies.
Cun Zhang, C. Forceville
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Metaphor and Politics

Metaphor and Symbol, 1997
For at least 3 decades, researchers and political theorists have been interested in how metaphors are used as persuasive devices. Theorists in this area have tended to assume that metaphors are persuasive, and they have discussed how this process occurs.
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How We Escape Capture by the “War” Metaphor for Covid-19

Metaphor and Symbol, 2022
We rely on metaphors and the stories they imply as heuristic devices for communication on all important social and political matters. We are easily trapped by dominant metaphors, though fresh metaphors may generate significant paradigm shifts. During the
M. Hanne
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Myths, Metaphors, and Political Conformity

Psychiatry, 1967
(1967). Myths, Metaphors, and Political Conformity. Psychiatry: Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 217-228.
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Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility

2006
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Maria Margaroni, Effie Yiannopoulou
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Metaphors in politics

2013
Where we know we can make a difference in the future, we set out our stall for the people with confidence. Because now they are thinking, reflecting – do we go forward with Labour, or back to the Tories. Our task is to persuade them to go forward . (Tony Blair, 2005, address to the Conference of the Labour Party, Gateshead) This was one of
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The Politics of Housing Metaphors

2020
Political metaphors condition social reality and mediate authority. One repeatedly used metaphor in discourses about migration and refuge is the misconception that ‘the state is a house.’ Far from only defining the modalities of inclusion and exclusion, metaphors of houses and housing evoke patriarchal political relationships between guests and hosts ...
Mackowitz, Laurin, Lorenz, Daniel
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Metaphors, Politics, and Biography

2010
In this chapter, we explore Freire’s writings and his use of metaphors to illuminate the harsh Brazilian culture and education system that helped shape his personal and educational viewpoints. He portrayed traditional education as a technical-rational system designed to protect upper-class interests.
John Dale, Emery J. Hyslop-Margison
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