Identity, Narrative and Metaphor

1. Front Matter

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2. General Introduction

   1. General Introduction

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      Pages 1-9

3. Designing a Corpus-Based Cognitive Analysis of Political Discourse

   1. Designing a Corpus-Based Cognitive Analysis of Political Discourse

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      Pages 10-49

4. The New Labour Identity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51

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   2. What’s in a Name? Party Names and Political Principles

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      Pages 53-80

   3. Reclaiming Ground on the National Scene — Fighting Stereotypes

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      Pages 81-119

5. New Labour and the Discourse of Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-125

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   2. Can Things Only Get Better? Internal Change in New Labour Discourse

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      Pages 127-170

   3. External Change and Globalisation in New Labour Discourse

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      Pages 171-209

   4. Labour after Blair

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      Pages 210-257

   5. General Conclusion

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6. Back Matter

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This book shows that the discourse of the Labour party 1994-2007, revolving around three key concepts of identity, narrative and metaphor, not only reflected new Labour's policy and organisational changes, but that it was also an essential part of its successful strategies of renovation and of power legitimation.

• discourse
• globalization
• identity
• Policy
• Stereotype
• discourse analysis

• Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, France

  Emilie L’Hôte

Emilie L'Hôte is a Lecturer in English linguistics at Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, France. Her main research project concentrates on the analysis of British political discourse using a combination of Cognitive Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics.

Policies and ethics