Presents a cognitive analysis of the function of biological/medical metaphors in National Socialist racist ideology and their background in historical traditions of Western political theory. This book argues that the metaphor of the German nation as a body that needed to be resc…
This book is the first to provide a cognitive analysis of the function of biological/medical metaphors in National Socialist racist ideology and their background in historical traditions of Western political theory. Its main arguments are that the metaphor of the German nation a…
This book is the first to provide a cognitive analysis of the function of biological/medical metaphors in National Socialist racist ideology and their background in historical traditions of Western political theory. Its main arguments are that the metaphor of the German nation a…
The metaphoric depiction of society and state as a body (in which each "organ" has its own function) has a long pedigree in the history of ideas in Europe. Examines the use of this metaphor by Nazi ideologists and particularly by Hitler in his "Mein Kampf", in the attempt to und…
Presents a cognitive analysis of the function of biological/medical metaphors in National Socialist racist ideology and their background in historical traditions of Western political theory. This book argues that the metaphor of the German nation as a body that needed to be resc…
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a host of critical reflections about discourse practises dealing with public health issues. Situating crisis communication at the centre of societal and political debates about responses to the pandemic, this volume analyses the discursive strate…
Political metaphors and related figurative discourse tools are characterised by their variability and contentiousness. Using them, discourse participants try to gain competitive advantage over others by offering their audiences new meaning nuances, challenging each other and ann…
"Political metaphors and related figurative discourse tools are characterised by their variability and contentiousness. Using them, discourse participants try to gain competitive advantage over others by offering their audiences new meaning nuances, challenging each other and an…
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Political conflict as war -- 2.1 Metaphors and concepts -- 2.2 Inferences from metaphors in relation to conceptual domains -- 2.3 Conceptual domains and metaphor corpora -- 2.4 Di…