Publications

Publication details [#42658]

Billig, Michael and Katie MacMillan. 2005. Metaphor, idiom and ideology: the search for ‘no smoking guns’ across time. Discourse & Society 16 (4) : 459–480.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | idiom | metaphor | political language | rhetoric

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper discusses metaphor use and meaning and the passage from metaphor to idiom in political discourse and in particular the ideological effects of the idiom ‘smoking gun’ (traced to the Watergate controversy).