Metaphor as a (de-)legitimizing strategy in leadership discourse : The language of crisis in Winston Churchill’s Cold War speeches
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<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.79.04seb" target="_blank" >10.1075/dapsac.79.04seb</a>
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angličtina
Original language name
Metaphor as a (de-)legitimizing strategy in leadership discourse : The language of crisis in Winston Churchill’s Cold War speeches
Original language description
This chapter investigates Churchill’s Cold War speeches as a case of how cognitive and corpus linguistics may serve as a useful tool for analyzing how political leaders legitimize their agendas via linguistic means. We find that Churchill’s rhetoric makes extensive use of the source domains person, journey, and building. The argumentative purpose is at least twofold. First, journey and building metaphors give positive value to the country’s prospects. Second, the journey metaphor is found to co-occur with personification, with the purpose of seeking partnership between the United States and the United Kingdom. We conclude by discussing how political leaders linguistically represent and conceptually frame a crisis, especially via metaphorical means, convincing their people of the usefulness of certain proposals and thus legitimizing their agendas, with Churchill as a representative example.
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C - Chapter in a specialist book
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
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S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Persuasion in public discourse : Cognitive and functional perspectives
ISBN
9789027201386
Number of pages of the result
19
Pages from-to
65-83
Number of pages of the book
334
Publisher name
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of publication
Amsterdam
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