Politicians and Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of Metaphor - Couverture souple

Charteris-Black, J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 023025165X ISBN 13 : 9780230251656

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Synopsis

This analysis of the rhetoric of nine successfully persuasive politicians explains how their use of language created credible and consistent stories about themselves and the social world they inhabit. It explores their use of metaphors, their myths and how language analysis helps us to understand how politicians are able to persuade.

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À propos de l?auteur

JONATHAN CHARTERIS-BLACK is Professor of Linguistics at the University of the West of England, UK. He is the author of Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis (2004); Politicians and Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of Metaphor (2005); The Communication of Leadership (2010) and (with Seale, C) Gender and the Language of Illness (2010) as well as numerous other articles and book chapters.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 023025165X
• ISBN 13: 9780230251656
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 370
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