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differences in the choice of metaphors are not associated with the ideo-
logical axis (e.g. left-right as Lakoff (2002) described), but rather the axis
of the government and the opposition.
Strength of the metaphor is based on surprise, ability to show a new
perspective. In the debates which have been analyzed not only were the
metaphors conventional, but it was also easy to predict who and at what
point uses them. So what is their true task? It seems that the key role of
metaphor is one of a rhetorical prop in the ceremonial dispute.
References
Billig, M., and K. MacMillan (2005). Metaphor, Idiom and Ideology:
The Search for “No Smoking Guns” Across Time. Discourse Socie-
ty, 16/4, 459–480.
Bitzer, L. F. (1999). The Rhetorical Situation. Lucaites, J. L., C. M. Con-
dit, and S. Caudill (eds.). Contemporary Rhetorical Theory. A Read-
er. New York-London: The Guilford Press, 217–225.
Brock, B. L., M. E. Huglen, J. F. Klumpp and S. Howell (2005). Mak-
ing Sense of Political Ideology. The Power of Language in Democracy,
Lanham-Oxford: Rowman&Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Burke, K. (1969). A Rhetoric of Motives, Berkeley: University of Califor-
nia Press.
Cameron, L., and R. Maslen (eds.) (2010). Metaphor Analysis, Research
Practice in Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences and the Humanities,
London-Oakville: Equinox Publishing Ltd.
Rogudka, B. (ed.) (2009). Postrzeganie instytucji unijnych. Komunikat z
badań, Warszawa: CBOS (Public Opinion Research Centre).
Rogudka, B. (ed.) (2012). Polacy o pakcie fiskalnym i pogłębianiu inte-
gracji w Unii Europejskiej. Komunikat z badań, Warszawa: CBOS
(Public Opinion Research Centre).
Chilton, P., and M. Ilyin (1993). Metaphor in Political Discourse. The
case of the “Common European House”. Discourse and Society, 4/1,
7–31.
Cicero (1942). De oratore, translated by E. W., London: William Heine-
man Ltd., Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Cicero (1993). De inventione; De optimo genere oratorum; Topica, trans-
lated by H. M. Hubbell, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard Uni-
versity Press.
Charteris-Black, J. (2005). Politicians and Rhetoric. The Persuasive Pow-
er of Metaphor, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
debates on the future of the eu 177
differences in the choice of metaphors are not associated with the ideo-
logical axis (e.g. left-right as Lakoff (2002) described), but rather the axis
of the government and the opposition.
Strength of the metaphor is based on surprise, ability to show a new
perspective. In the debates which have been analyzed not only were the
metaphors conventional, but it was also easy to predict who and at what
point uses them. So what is their true task? It seems that the key role of
metaphor is one of a rhetorical prop in the ceremonial dispute.
References
Billig, M., and K. MacMillan (2005). Metaphor, Idiom and Ideology:
The Search for “No Smoking Guns” Across Time. Discourse Socie-
ty, 16/4, 459–480.
Bitzer, L. F. (1999). The Rhetorical Situation. Lucaites, J. L., C. M. Con-
dit, and S. Caudill (eds.). Contemporary Rhetorical Theory. A Read-
er. New York-London: The Guilford Press, 217–225.
Brock, B. L., M. E. Huglen, J. F. Klumpp and S. Howell (2005). Mak-
ing Sense of Political Ideology. The Power of Language in Democracy,
Lanham-Oxford: Rowman&Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Burke, K. (1969). A Rhetoric of Motives, Berkeley: University of Califor-
nia Press.
Cameron, L., and R. Maslen (eds.) (2010). Metaphor Analysis, Research
Practice in Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences and the Humanities,
London-Oakville: Equinox Publishing Ltd.
Rogudka, B. (ed.) (2009). Postrzeganie instytucji unijnych. Komunikat z
badań, Warszawa: CBOS (Public Opinion Research Centre).
Rogudka, B. (ed.) (2012). Polacy o pakcie fiskalnym i pogłębianiu inte-
gracji w Unii Europejskiej. Komunikat z badań, Warszawa: CBOS
(Public Opinion Research Centre).
Chilton, P., and M. Ilyin (1993). Metaphor in Political Discourse. The
case of the “Common European House”. Discourse and Society, 4/1,
7–31.
Cicero (1942). De oratore, translated by E. W., London: William Heine-
man Ltd., Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Cicero (1993). De inventione; De optimo genere oratorum; Topica, trans-
lated by H. M. Hubbell, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard Uni-
versity Press.
Charteris-Black, J. (2005). Politicians and Rhetoric. The Persuasive Pow-
er of Metaphor, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
