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Twardzisz, Piotr

 
9781137332691: The Language of Interstate Relations: In Search of Personification

Sinopsis

The language of international relations theory and practice has traditionally been claimed metaphorical. Among several metaphors discussed in the literature, the ’state is a person’ metaphor has been unanimously claimed as pervading the language of world affairs. This book challenges the cognitive dogma of the ubiquity and pervasiveness of the personification of the political state, both in its conceptual and linguistic varieties. The detailed data-driven research provides ample evidence against the widely held view of the ubiquity of this metaphor. It also casts doubt on the overrated role of metonymy in the language of international politics. Polemical in nature, the book critiques conceptual metaphor for its contribution to the growing ideologization of research. It offers a cognitive and realistic solution to many of the dilemmas.

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Piotr Twardzisz is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His research interests focus on specialist languages, figurative language, word formation, lexicology and terminology, as well as politics and international affairs. Piotr is author of Zero Derivation in English: A Cognitive Grammar Approach (1997), Patterns of English Word-Formation (2010) and numerous articles.

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