Metaphor as a (de-)legitimizing strategy in leadership discourse : The language of crisis in Winston Churchill’s Cold War speeches

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.79.04seb" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.79.04seb</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.79.04seb" target="_blank" >10.1075/dapsac.79.04seb</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Metaphor as a (de-)legitimizing strategy in leadership discourse : The language of crisis in Winston Churchill’s Cold War speeches

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Metaphor as a (de-)legitimizing strategy in leadership discourse : The language of crisis in Winston Churchill’s Cold War speeches

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Persuasion in public discourse : Cognitive and functional perspectives

ISBN

9789027201386

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

65-83

Počet stran knihy

334

Název nakladatele

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Místo vydání

Amsterdam

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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