●Preface
●Acknowledgements
●List of Abbreviations
●Chapter 1 Introduction
●1.1 Some preliminaries
●1.2 Rationale and hypotheses
●1.3 Research questions
●1.4 Research significance
●1.4.1 Theoretical significance
●1.4.2 Practical implications
●1.5 The structure of this book
●Chapter 2 Literature Review
●2.1 The historical background of different approaches to metaphor
●2. 1. 1 The linguistic approach
●2. 1.2 The pragmatic approach
●2. 1.3 The interactionist approach
●2. 1.4 The cognitive approach
●2.2 Metaphor and politics
●2.3 Metaphor and ideology
●2.4 Metaphor and political persuasion
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