The European Family and Athenian Fatherland

Political Metaphors Ancient and Modern

Bibliographic Data

ID8026799
AuthorsJakub Filonik (0000-0001-9624-1041, Jagiellonian University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume23
Issue1-2
Pages25-46
Publication date2017-11-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe European Legacy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10848770.2017.1402521
OpenAlexW2770357081
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited49

This article explores the role and modes of operation of metaphorical framing in ancient Greek and modern European and American political discourse. It looks at how concepts such as citizenship, ownership, family, morality, finance, sport, war, domination, human life, and animals are used to reframe political issues in ways promoted by the speaker, and how they may continue to be reshaped in the ongoing political discourse. The analysis of examples of ancient Athenian public rhetoric and of modern European and American political debates reveals the diferences and some striking similarities in the ways political and civic values were expressed and reframed in antiquity and how they are used today. This essay also discusses the potential efects of such framing in antiquity and in more recent times

Active citizenship · Citizenship · Cognitive reframing · Environmental ethics · Fatherland · Framing (construction · Linguistics · Morality · Political rhetoric · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Social science · Sociology · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

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