The objective of this book is to understand variation in political metaphor. Political metaphors are distinctive and important because they are used to achieve

"Political metaphors and related figurative discourse tools are characterised by their variability and contentiousness. Using them, discourse participants try t

Explores the physical, psychological and social factors that shape the way in which people engage with embodied metaphor, including, for example, the shape of o

Until a century ago, a metaphor was just a mere figure of speech, but since the development of discourse analysis a metaphor has become more than merely inciden

The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research on metaphor and language. Featu