Fire metaphors : discourses of awe and authority / Jonathan Charteris-Black.

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Charteris-Black, Jonathan, 1955- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Description
238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    This detailed study of fire metaphors provides a deep understanding of the purposeful work of metaphor in discourse. It analyses how and why fire metaphors are used in discourses of awe (mythology and religion) and authority (political speeches and media reports). Fire serves as a productive and salient lexical field for metaphors that seek to create awe and impose authority. These metaphors offer a rich linguistic and conceptual resource for authors of mythologies, theologies, literature, speeches and journalism, and provide insight into the rich interplay of thought, language and culture. This book explores the purpose of fire metaphors in genres ranging from the Norse sagas to religious texts, from Shakespeare to British and American political speeches. Ultimately it arrives at an understanding of the rhetorical work that metaphor accomplishes in communicating evaluations and ideologies.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-232) and indexes.
    Contents
    • Part I. Fire in culture, language and thought
    • The meaning of fire
    • Investigating fire metaphors
    • Fire, emotion and cognition
    • Part II. Fire in religious discourse
    • Fire in the Abrahamic religions
    • Fire in Zoroastrianism
    • Fire in Hinduism
    • Part III. Fire in political discourse
    • Fire and authority in sixteenth-century England: Foxe's book of martyrs
    • Fire metaphors in British political rhetoric
    • Fire metaphors in American political rhetoric
    • Fire metaphors in visual media: British political cartoons.
    ISBN
    • 9781472532541 ((hardcover))
    • 1472532546 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    2017287469
    OCLC
    963734980
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