{"product_id":"political-language-and-metaphor-paperback-softback","title":"Political Language and Metaphor - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eUntil a century ago, a metaphor was just a mere figure of speech, but since the development of discourse analysis a metaphor has become more than merely incidental to the content of the arguments or findings. Students and scholars in political studies know the importance of metaphors in electoral and policy-related politics, coming across metaphors that are, knowingly or unknowingly, influencing our perception of politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the first to develop new methodological approaches to understand and analyse the use of metaphor in political science and international relations. It does this by:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCombining theory with case studies in order to advance substantive work in politics and international relations that focuses on metaphor\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExpands the range of empirical case studies that employ this category descriptively and also in explanatory logic\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAdvances research that investigates the role of metaphor in empirical and discourse-based methodologies, thus building on results from other disciplines, notably linguistics and hermeneutic philosophy.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis innovative study will be of interest to students and researchers of politics, international relations and communication studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45548229198062,"sku":"9780415663762","price":74.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780415663762.jpg?v=1720261794","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/political-language-and-metaphor-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}