Political Language and Metaphor: Interpreting and changing the world

by Terrell Carver (Editor), Jernej Pikalo (Editor)

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 This innovative study will be of interest to students and researchers of politics, international relations and communication studies.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Terrell Carver the professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol. He deals particularly with Marxism.