The politics of metaphor

Article Abstract:

There are two related vectors of the politics of metaphor, one of which is the ostensibly academic question of the place of metaphor, and hence its meaning. It is argued that all thought and language is metaphoric, with most metaphors being old, while some are new and shape the next wave of knowledge and action in the world, evaporating all boundaries.

Metaphor

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Rhetoric

Article Abstract:

Rhetoric teaches one how to begin, even or precisely when beginning seems impossible. Rhetoric, which is mostly taught in instrumentalized and commodified form, blurs boundaries, including its own, and can never be fully separated from sophistry.

Poststructuralism, Competence and performance (Linguistics), Linguistic competence

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Maternal surveillance: disrupting the rhetoric of war

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The psychological aspects behind the making of a war hero and the heroic myth of combat are explored as war is romanticized and rationalized. Resistance to war can be achieved through gendered protests.

United States, Psychological aspects, Heroism, Warrior-heroes

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