Metaphor and the rhetorical invention of cold war “idealists”
1987; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 54; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/03637758709390224
ISSN1479-5787
Autores Tópico(s)Military History and Strategy
ResumoThis paper presents a five‐step procedure for identifying metaphorical concepts guiding the rhetorical invention of three Cold War idealists";: Henry Wallace, J. William Fulbright, and Helen Caldicott. The source of their collective failure to dispel threatening images of Soviet savagery is located in a recurrent system of metaphorical concepts (including MADNESS, PATHOLOGY, SICKNESS, AND FORCE) that promotes a reversal of the enemy‐image rather than its transcendence. By decivilizing America's image, "idealists"; turn the victimage ritual inward upon a self‐righteous nation and provoke "realists"; to regress further into decivilizing images of the Soviet Union.
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