International Journal of
English and Literature

  • Abbreviation: Int. J. English Lit.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-2626
  • DOI: 10.5897/IJEL
  • Start Year: 2010
  • Published Articles: 285

Review

Metaphors in political discourse: A review of selected studies

Raphael Francis Otieno
  • Raphael Francis Otieno
  • Department of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, Kenya.
  • Google Scholar
Francis Rew Owino
  • Francis Rew Owino
  • Department of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, Kenya.
  • Google Scholar
Judith Miguda Attyang'
  • Judith Miguda Attyang'
  • Department of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, Kenya.
  • Google Scholar


  •  Received: 22 September 2015
  •  Accepted: 11 January 2016
  •  Published: 29 February 2016

References

Beard A (2000). The Language of Politics. London: Routledge.

 

Brown P, Levinson SC (1987). Politeness: Some universals in Language Use. Studies in Interactional Linguistics: Cambridgeshire New York: Cambridge University Press. P 4

 

Clarissa V (2012). Mafumbo: Considering the Functions of Metaphorical Speech in Swahili Contexts, In: Selected Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Somerville, M.A. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

 

Grice P (1977). Logic and Conversation' In: Peter Cole and J. Morgan (eds.), Syntax and Semantics New York: Academic Press 3:41-58.

 

Habwe JH (2010). Dialogue Drama in Kenyan Political Speeches and Its Pragmatic Implications. Nordic J. Afr. Stud. 19(3):165-180.

 

Haugerud A, Njogu SK (1991). State Voices in the Countryside: Politics and the Kenyan Baraza. African Studies Centre. Boston University.

 

Lakoff G, Johnson M (1980). Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Lakoff G (1996). Moral Politics: What Conservatives know that Liberals don't. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

 

Mensah EO (2012). The Yutong bus: Representations of a new Ghanaian Political Metaphor. Theory Pract. Lang. Stud. 2(1):118-125.
crossref

 

Michira JN (2014). The Language of Politics: A CDA of the 2013 Kenyan Presidential Campaign Discourse. Int. J. Educ. Res. 2:1.

 

Njogu SK (1994). Dialogic Poetry: Contestation and Social Challenge in East African Poeti Genres. Michigan: A Bell and Howell Company.

 

Opeibi T (2006).'Political Marketing or Political "Macheting?" A Study of Negative Campaigning in Nigerian Political Discourse. 

view.

 

Quinn N (1991).The Cultural Basis of Metaphor. In: J.W. Fernandez (Ed.) Beyond Metaphor: The theory of tropes in anthropology. Stanford, C.A: Stanford University Press.

 

Shahla S, Ailin FP, Aida FP (2012). 'Role of Body Members in Constructing Metaphors in Persian Political Texts'. Mediter. J. Sci. 3(3)

 

Taiwo R (2010). Metaphors in Nigerian Political Discourse. Obafemi Awololowo University, Nigeria.

 

Vestermark I (2007). Metaphors in Politics, A Study of the Metaphorical Personification of American Political Discourse, An Extended Essay. Lulea University of Technology and Culture.

 

Wei JM (2001). 'The Pragmatics of Metaphor in Taiwanese Politics' In Virtual Missiles Metaphors and Allusions in Taiwanese Political Campaigns. United States: Lexington Books.

 

Yu N (2008). Metaphor from body and culture. In W. Raymond and Jr. Gibbs (Eds.) Metaphor and Thought. London: Cambridge University Press.
crossref