Politicians and Rhetoric The Persuasive Power of Metaphor Jonathan Charteris-Black Politicians and Rhetoric Also by Jonathan Charteris-Black CORPUS APPROACHES TO CRITICAL METAPHOR ANALYSIS Politicians and Rhetoric The Persuasive Power of Metaphor Jonathan Charteris-Black © Jonathan Charteris-Black 2005 All rights reserved. No reproduction‚ copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced‚ copied
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“Metaphors We Live By” As suggested by Lakoff and Johnson in Metaphors We Live By‚ “Concepts govern our everyday functioning‚ down to the mundane details” (Johnson‚ 1980). What I found interesting while reading this article is that Metaphors We Live By gives us examples that demonstrate metaphors used in everyday language. Lakoff and Johnson explained‚ our culture has significant influence on how we use metaphors; where we as Americans see arguing in terms of war‚ they want to get the high ground
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Response to "Metaphors We Live By" by Lakoff and Johnson The primary subject of the text "Metaphors We Live By‚" by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson is that metaphors have been adapted into our daily lives and they have become a part of society. They have the ability to help us understand and comprehend what is being described to us. The bottom line is that "Our ordinary conceptual system is metaphorical in nature." (1) We have found ways to describe how we identify‚ think‚ and react. Even though
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Metaphor for life There are an infinite number of ways for a person to describe their life. I think the best way is to use a metaphor. Many different metaphors can be used to explain an individual’s world. Anything can be used as a comparison‚ from trees to furniture. My life would best be described as an everyday piece of furniture. This piece is unlike any other piece because of the things hidden inside. There are little cubby holes where objects of importance can be shoved away and hidden
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Previously‚ I‚ along with many of my fellow collegues‚ attended the Carey Lecture‚ “Metaphors We Die By: How Patterns of Communication Can Become Deadly” presented by John Lyne. I found a few of the points to be very interesting but I also found myself at times confused or lost. I believe this to be‚ in part‚ from the way in which John Lyne spoke. It’s not that he did not express the ideas well but rather that his nervousness was extremely present. Despite having a manuscript during the speech
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how it they work‚ and an easy way to learn about them is through a simple metaphor. A simple metaphor that can be used to understand the unconscious mind‚ its relationship to the conscious mind and how the two parts of our mind can better work together is that of an iceberg. There are two parts to the iceberg‚ the visible part and the massive chunk of ice extending deep into the ocean. The small percentage of the whole iceberg that is visible above the surface represents the conscious mind. ]t is
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Often in poems‚ we are confronted with metaphors. Simply‚ a figure of speech where one thing is described in terms of another (Jacobs‚ 30). Butt there are also times where the whole poem is a metaphor‚ when a large metaphor functions as the controlling image of a piece of work. Such is the case in Robert Frost’s poem‚ The Road Not Taken. The expressed content of the poem is simply that of the speaker‚ Frost himself‚ out on a walk one day in a wooded area. As he is out walking‚ he arrives at
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Introduction The R.M.S. Titanic sideswiped an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on April 14‚ 1912. Estimated to be able to stay afloat for 2 days under the worst scenario‚ the ship sank in less than 3 hours [Gannon‚ 1995]. Main Cause for Sinking The iceberg created a 300-foot gash in the Titanic’s hull above and below the waterline. Structural Errors That Accelerated the Sinking Steel brittleness Tests on Titanic’s steel showed that the steel had high sulfur content‚ which increases the brittleness
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have to sink. Although the Titanic sunk‚ it did not have to kill this many people. However‚ it hit an iceberg and put many people to death instantly. One reason that the Titanic sunk is because it ran up on an iceberg in the middle of the night. The captain did not have time to slow down. But‚ they were already going way too fast. Also‚ the crew members tried to tell the captain about the iceberg but the captain ignored them and told them to “shut up”. However‚ out of the many women that died on
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intimate welding of their later history.” He suggests that there is a greater being that knows what is going on‚ but no person knows. Hardy’s use of strong diction creates imagery that allows a reader to understand the two different worlds of the iceberg and the ship. In stanza five Hardy introduces the greatness and glory of the ship through the personification of the fish‚ “dim moon-eyed fishes near gaze at the gilded gear and query: what does this vaingloriousness down here?” In stanza eight
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