Metaphor as a (de-)legitimizing strategy in leadership
discourse : The language of crisis in Winston Churchill’s Cold
War speeches

C 2018

Metaphor as a (de-)legitimizing strategy in leadership discourse : The language of crisis in Winston Churchill’s Cold War speeches

SEBERA, Jan a Wei-lun LU

Základní údaje

Originální název

Metaphor as a (de-)legitimizing strategy in leadership discourse : The language of crisis in Winston Churchill’s Cold War speeches

Autoři

SEBERA, Jan (203 Česká republika, domácí) a Wei-lun LU (158 Tchaj-wan, garant, domácí)

Vydání

1. vyd. Amsterdam, Persuasion in public discourse : Cognitive and functional perspectives, od s. 65-83, 19 s. Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture (DAPSAC), vol. 79, 2018

Nakladatel

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Obor

60203 Linguistics

Stát vydavatele

Nizozemské království

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00105044

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

ISBN

978-90-272-0138-6

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.79.04seb

UT WoS

000813447800004

Klíčová slova anglicky

Cold War; crisis; leadership; legitimization; metaphor; Winston Churchill

Štítky

rivok, topvydavatel

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 25. 10. 2024 16:19, Mgr. Natálie Hílek

Anotace

V originále

This chapter investigates Churchill’s Cold War speeches as a case of how cognitive and corpus linguistics may serve as a useful tool for analyzing how political leaders legitimize their agendas via linguistic means. We find that Churchill’s rhetoric makes extensive use of the source domains person, journey, and building. The argumentative purpose is at least twofold. First, journey and building metaphors give positive value to the country’s prospects. Second, the journey metaphor is found to co-occur with personification, with the purpose of seeking partnership between the United States and the United Kingdom. We conclude by discussing how political leaders linguistically represent and conceptually frame a crisis, especially via metaphorical means, convincing their people of the usefulness of certain proposals and thus legitimizing their agendas, with Churchill as a representative example.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1065/2016, interní kód MU

Název: Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě II (Akronym: VZALL2)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě II, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

SEBERA, Jan a Wei-lun LU. Metaphor as a (de-)legitimizing strategy in leadership discourse : The language of crisis in Winston Churchill’s Cold War speeches. In Pelclová, Jana; Lu, Wei-lun. Persuasion in public discourse : Cognitive and functional perspectives. 1. vyd. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018, s. 65-83. Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture (DAPSAC), vol. 79. ISBN 978-90-272-0138-6. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.79.04seb.

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SEBERA, Jan a Wei-lun LU. Metaphor as a (de-)legitimizing strategy in leadership discourse : The language of crisis in Winston Churchill’s Cold War speeches. In Pelclová, Jana; Lu, Wei-lun. \textit{Persuasion in public discourse : Cognitive and functional perspectives}. 1. vyd. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018, s.~65-83. Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture (DAPSAC), vol. 79. ISBN~978-90-272-0138-6. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.79.04seb.

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