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Müller, Ralph. 2010. Critical analysis of creative metaphors in political speeches In Low, Graham, Zazie Todd, Alice Deignan and Lynne J. Cameron. Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 321–332. 12 pp. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Abstract
Creative metaphors play, in many respects, an important role in political discourse; however, there is still a lack of categories to identify and analyse creative metaphors on a textual level. One precondition for analysing creativity in a non-literary discourse such as politics is to understand that creativity exists rather along clines and, therefore, needs to be redefined according to its context. As a consequence, this study understands creative metaphors as expressions which draw the attention to their metaphoricity by deviating from conventional ways of expressing things within a particular discourse or genre (e.g. political speeches). In addition, an analysis of the metaphor “centre of gravity” in a speech of the German foreign minister Joschka Fischer will illustrate how corpora can help us to evaluate metaphorical expressions within this framework.
(Ralph Mueller)