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In this book, Chiara Nasti analyses the distribution of metaphor scenarios and patterns in the public discourse on the European Lisbon Treaty. Her study on a specialized corpus reveals differences and/or similarities in the argumentation and attitudes of the main UK broadsheet and tabloid newspapers. She summarizes the main theories and identification procedures for metaphor investigation, commenting on some developments in the field of metaphor studies. Following Charteris-Black's Critical Metaphor Analysis, she starts from the premise that metaphors need to be explored in the context where they occur. Her analysis in fact reveals that context investigation is useful to better understand the complexity of metaphors - their pragmatic and cognitive function - and their role in the political debate. Moreover, the analysis reveals as well that metaphors are useful tools for identifying stereotyped roles of the participants in the ratification process; and they are also functional, used to explore both political and journalistic attitudes towards the debate on the Lisbon Treaty.Her book addresses readers from various academic backgrounds who are interested in linguistics, cognitive linguistics and, in particular, the application of corpus linguistics to metaphor investigation. It will also be of interest to academic students dealing with the debate over the Lisbon Treaty.

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'Rich in real occurring examples and insightful, 'Images of the Lisbon Treaty Debate in the British Press: A Corpus-Based Approach to Metaphor Analysis' will be of interest to academics and researchers in corpus linguistics and media discourse'. Professor Gabriella Di Martino. Dr Nasti's book provides a thoroughly researched study of political metaphor media language, with special regard to the Lisbon Treaty Debate in Britain. She convincingly shows that Euro-sceptical stereotypes are expressed by way of metaphor - most frequently, by way of movement and conflict imagery - and can be found across the whole range of the British press, but with significant conceptual and stylistic differences that relate to the respective target audiences and political leanings. Metaphors are thus shown to be among the chief linguistic vehicles to transport and influence political attitudes, evaluations and ideologies. - Professor Andreas Musolff, School of Languages and Communication Studies, University of East Anglia

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Chiara Nasti is a temporary contract Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, and a Teaching Assistant in the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Naples Federico II. Her publications include Metaphors on the Way to Lisbon: Will the Treaty Go On the Trunk Line or Will It Be Stopped in its Course? (Corpus Linguistics Conference 2009, online proceedings), and Movement Images in the Debate about Lisbon: A Corpus-Based Analysis in Gill Philips' Topics and Targets: Conceptual and Linguistic Metaphors in Text and Discourse (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, forthcoming).

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