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Decoding Political Discourse DOI: 10.1057/9781137309907 Other Palgrave Pivot titles Asha Sen: Postcolonial Yearning: Reshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourses in Contemporary Literature Ralf Emmers: Resource Management and Contested Territories in East Asia Peter Conn: Adoption: A Brief Social and Cultural History Niranjan Ramakrishnan: Reading Gandhi in the Twenty-First Century Joel Gwynne: Erotic Memoirs and Postfeminism: The Politics of Pleasure Ira Nadel: Modernism’s Second Act: A Cultural Narrative Andy Sumner and Richard Mallett: The Future of Foreign Aid: Development Cooperation and the New Geography of Global Poverty Tariq Mukhimer: Hamas Rule in Gaza: Human Rights under Constraint Khen Lampert: Meritocratic Education and Social Worthlessness G. Douglas Atkins: Swift’s Satires on Modernism: Battlegrounds of Reading and Writing David Schultz: American Politics in the Age of Ignorance: Why Lawmakers Choose Belief over Research G. Douglas Atkins: T.S. 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A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. www.palgrave.com/pivot doi: 10.1057/9781137309907 Contents List of Figures vii List of Tables viii Acknowledgments ix Introduction Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Political Discourse Analysis 2.1 Cognitive linguistics theory of metaphor: an overview 13 2.2 The cognitive and argumentative nature of political discourse 18 2.3 Conceptual metaphors as defeasible arguments 31 Decoding Conceptual Metaphors 3.1 Conceptualizing the financial crisis 40 3.2 POLITICS IS CONFLICT, POLITICS IS VISION 43 3.3 The Stars and the Dogs of the company called America 55 3.4 POLITICS IS ETHICS 67 Symbolic Power and Argumentation 4.1 Sound moves or political leverage? 77 DOI: 10.1057/9781137309907 v vi Contents 4.2 Politeness, argumentation schemes, and ethos construction 90 4.3 Argumentation on war 102 Concluding Thoughts 5.1 Horizons of truth and the moral victory 111 5.2 Contributions of this study 114 Appendix: Corpus Bibliography Index of Conceptual Metaphors General Index DOI: 10.1057/9781137309907 List of Figures 2.1 The correlational pattern between policy and ideology through discourse 19 DOI: 10.1057/9781137309907 vii List of Tables 2.1 Aspects of meaning and their operationalization concepts 22 3.1 McCain’s metaphorical reasoning in the first presidential debate 47 3.2 Obama’s metaphorical reasoning in the first presidential debate 53 3.3 Obama’s PRODUCT LIFE-CYCLE metaphorical reasoning 66 4.1 Metaphorical reasoning and argumentation in the third presidential debate 94 4.2 Ending the war in Iraq: argument reconstruction 104 viii DOI: 10.1057/9781137309907 Acknowledgments Research in any field involves a lot of sacrifice but it also lays the foundations of special relationships and it definitely nourishes old friendships. Therefore, it is high time that I do my duty and grant recognition to all those people who have assisted me and have encouraged me to undertake this project. First of all, I am deeply indebted to my son and my hus- band because without their support I would have never managed to defend two doctoral dissertations and to write three books and dozens of articles in the past 12 years. I owe a great debt of gratitude to all researchers in cogni- tive linguistics and argumentation studies whose works and lines of thinking have guided my humble attempt, which hopefully will shed new light on some debatable issues. In particular, I would like to thank Isabela Fairclough, whose pieces of advice and kind thoughts have accompanied my work from the outset of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in Romania. Special thanks are due to Professor Mihai Zdrenghea at Babeş-Bolyai University, who was helpful and supportive at all stages in the development of my doctoral dissertation from which part of this book stems, and also to Arleen Ionescu and Adina Nicolae and to all my colleagues in the Philology department of Petroleum-Gas University of Ploieşti for the time they have invested in supporting me in my career. Last but not least, I am indebted to Palgrave Macmillan for the great opportunity they provided me to publish original work in the form of a short-monograph focused DOI: 10.1057/9781137309907 ix
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