Metaphor and the rhetorical invention of cold war “idealists”
- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Communication Monographs
- Vol. 54 (2) , 165-182
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03637758709390224
Abstract
This 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.Keywords
This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
- Literalizing the metaphor of soviet savagery: President Truman's plain styleSouthern Speech Communication Journal, 1986
- Speaking “common sense”; about the Soviet threat: Reagan's rhetorical stanceWestern Journal of Speech Communication, 1984
- The bear in the back yard: Myth, ideology, and victimage ritual in soviet funeralsCommunication Monographs, 1983
- I. Topical invention and metaphoric interactionSouthern Speech Communication Journal, 1983
- The metaphor of forge in Prowar discourse: The case of 1812Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1982
- Images of savagery in American justifications for warCommunication Monographs, 1980
- Henry A. Wallace and American Foreign PolicyPublished by Bloomsbury Academic ,1976
- Presidential motives for warQuarterly Journal of Speech, 1974
- Rhetoric of ReligionPublished by University of California Press ,1970
- Henry A. Wallace, the Liberals, and Soviet-American RelationsThe Review of Politics, 1968