Politicians and Rhetoric (eBook)

JONATHAN CHARTERIS-BLACK is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Surrey, UK. He has published extensively in the areas of figurative language, corpus linguistics, cognitive semantics and English for specific purposes. He is the author of Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2004.

Cover 1
Politicians and Rhetoric 4
Contents 8
Preface 12
1 Persuasion, Legitimacy and Leadership 14
2 Churchill: Metaphor and Heroic Myth 45
3 Martin Luther King: Messianic Myth 71
4 Margaret Thatcher and the Myth of Boedicia 99
5 Clinton and the Rhetoric of Image Restoration 128
6 Tony Blair and Conviction Rhetoric 155
7 George W. Bush and the Rhetoric of Moral Accounting 182
8 Myth, Metaphor and Leadership 210
Appendix 1 Churchill Corpus 226
Appendix 2 Churchill’s Metaphors Classified 227
Appendix 3 Martin Luther King Corpus 228
Appendix 4 Martin Luther King’s Metaphors Classified 229
Appendix 5 Margaret Thatcher’s Metaphors Classified 229
Appendix 6 Clinton Corpus 232
Appendix 7 Bill Clinton’s Metaphors Classified 233
Appendix 8 Blair Corpus 235
Appendix 9 Tony Blair’s Metaphors Classified by SourceDomain 236
Appendix 10 238
Appendix 11 Metaphors of George Bush Junior and Senior Classified 239
Bibliography 241
Index of Conceptual Metaphors 241
Index 248