In:Thinking Politically: Cognitive linguistic insights into political discourse
Edited by Anastasios Vogiatzis
[Figurative Thought and Language 22] 2027
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
Preface
Chapter 1.Introduction: Political discourse in the cognitive linguistic archipelago
Anastasios Vogiatzis
Andreas Musolff
Section 1.Metaphors in contemporary political discourse
Chapter 2.“A message from the future”: Politainment and climate
crisis metaphors
crisis metaphors
Anais Augé
Lilla Petronella Szabó
Chapter 3.A critical discourse analysis of Putin’s political speeches
in times of war or how metaphors are used to legitimize
Russia’s war on Ukraine
in times of war or how metaphors are used to legitimize
Russia’s war on Ukraine
Nuria Llorente-Belda
Chapter 4.An analysis of the family metaphor in Albanian political
discourses on the European Union
discourses on the European Union
Ledia Kazazi
Chapter 5.Metaphors of corruption in Maltese: A corpus-based analysis
of terms and phrases
of terms and phrases
Kurstin Gatt
Chapter 6.Political cartoons along the mono-multimodal metaphor
continuum: The presidential election in Italy 2022
continuum: The presidential election in Italy 2022
Sabine Heinemann
Section 2.Irony and its perception in public discourse
Chapter 7.Expressing attitudes through irony in public discourse
Inesa Šeškauskienė
Virginija Masiulionytė
Jurga Cibulskienė
Chapter 8.Talking about talking about the climate crisis: Figurative
strategies for difficult conversations
strategies for difficult conversations
Schuyler Laparle
Section 3.Metonymy in modern and ancient political discourse
Chapter 9.A “MEGA” presidency: The figurative framing
of the EU in Viktor Orbán’s rhetoric during the 2024 Hungarian
Council Presidency
of the EU in Viktor Orbán’s rhetoric during the 2024 Hungarian
Council Presidency
Lilla Petronella Szabó
Dóra Eszter Varga
Utku Bozdağ
Chapter 10.Emotion over reason: Ad hominem arguments in
Thucydides’ history: A socio-cognitive approach
Maria Karali
Section 4.Structuring political discourse through image schemas, idealized cognitive models, and grammatical construals
Chapter 11.Ukrainian war discourse: An idea-turned-effect analysis
Serhiy Potapenko
Nalalia Izotova
Chapter 12.Will Taiwan be the next Ukraine? A comparative analysis
of U.S. and Taiwanese media’s employment of the analogy
and counter-analogy
of U.S. and Taiwanese media’s employment of the analogy
and counter-analogy
Wen-yu Chiang
Wen-Yi Huang
Chun-Wei Hsu
Mikhail Stepanenko
Chapter 13.The mirage of time: praesens
propheticus in political speeches: A cognitive pragmatic approach
Maria Karali
