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Introduction: Studying variation in political metaphor: From discourse analysis to experiment / Min Reuchamps, Paul H. Thibodeau and Julien Perrez -- 1. First Lady, Secretary of State and Presidential Candidate: A comparative study of the role-dependent use of metaphor in politics / Kathleen Ahrens -- 2. Fairies, Christmas miracles and sham marriages: A diachronic analysis of deliberate metaphors in Belgian political discourse / Pauline Heyvaert -- 3. The rhetorical use of political metaphor before, during and after the presidency: Television interviews with the former Croatian president / Nikolina Borcic and Ivona Culo -- 4. Knifed in the back: A metaphor analysis of party leadership takeovers / Ben Fenton-Smith -- 5. Greek metaphors in the fiscal straightjacket / Anastasios Vogiatzis -- 6. The use of sensorimotor-based concepts during and after presidential campaigns: Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump / Liane Stroebel -- 7. Variations of metaphors in party manifestos about EU finality: Assessing party positions through conceptual metaphors / Jan Kovár -- 8. Variation in methods for studying political metaphor: Comparing experiments and discourse analysis / Paul H. Thibodeau, James Fleming and Maya Lannen -- Conclusion: A Journey through variation in political metaphor / Paul H. Thibodeau, Julien Perrez and Min Reuchamps -- Biographical notes -- Index.

This article investigates the role of metaphor in the production & reproduction of language ideologies. It does this by focusing on official discourses concerning the language policy of Singapore, where recurrent appeal is made to the conduit metaphor (Reddy, 1993) in articulating various claims & beliefs about language & its relation to questions of identity & values. The analytic framework adopted here treats language ideologies in terms of three semiotic processes: iconization, recursion, & erasure (Gal & Irvine, 1995). By tracking a single metaphor through a variety of discourses, the article illustrates how these semiotic processes come together when metaphor is used in the service of ideology. The article also suggests the introduction of a fourth semiotic process, performativity, which draws attention to the various lexical realizations of the conduit metaphor. 29 References. Adapted from the source document.

Offers the transcript of an interview with Donna Haraway, professor in the History of Consciousness Dept at the U of California, Santa Cruz, in which she maintains that she often thinks in biological metaphors as a result of her extensive training in molecular, cellular, & developmental biology, & that her ways of working have become more "conscious" over time. She points out the symbiotic relationship that exists between language & the embodiment of it, to argue that language is an "intensely physical process" that draws attention to the complexities of looking at the material world outside of the dualities of nature-culture, mind-body, or symbolic-material. She explains the meaning of the microorganism, Mixotricha paradoxa, which appears in her book, The Cyborg Handbook (1995), noting that it is a boundary creature like the cyborg, primate, or OncoMouse, but, unlike them, is produced by multiple technoscientific relations that extend beyond the laboratory. Her definition of modernity as the "period of the intensified transportation of seeds & genes" is discussed. 6 References. J. Lindroth