Andreas Musolff offers an research of the functionality of metaphor in political discourse, according to fabric from an intensive corpus of British and German press insurance of ecu politics among 1989 and 2001. The research of distributions of 'metaphor eventualities' within the corpus samples finds variations in perspective and argumentative trends and results in a refinement of cognitive metaphor conception. the moral size of metaphor in politics is additional explored almost about Hobbes' Leviathan .
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