Metaphors of Brexit No Cherries on the Cake? /

• Main Author: Charteris-Black, Jonathan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Social media.; Linguistics.; Discourse analysis.; Political communication.; Great Britain-Politics and government.; Pragmatics.; Social Media.; Popular Science in Linguistics.; Discourse Analysis.; Political Communication.; British Politics.

'In this timely monograph, the author applies his Critical Metaphor Analysis approach with masterly skill to the jargon of Brexit and the Brexit debate. The frames, myths, scripts and arguments for and against Britain's withdrawal from the EU are revealed as parts of a large contest to tel...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Cherries on the Cake?
• Chapter 2: The Lexicon of the Referendum
• Chapter 3: I Love My Country
• Chapter 4: 'Take Back Control': The War & Invasion Frame
• Chapter 5: Conceptual Metaphors: 'The Brussels Bubble'
• Chapter 6: The Metaphors of Boris Johnson
• Chapter 7: Happy Families and Special Relationships
• Chapter 8: Are Marriages Made in Heaven?
• Chapter 9: Animals: Moral Intuition and Moral Reasoning
• Chapter 10: Metaphors for Brexit.