Understanding Modern Europe Through Metaphors: Analyzing Political Speeches - AVES01037

• Title: Understanding Modern Europe Through Metaphors: Analyzing Political Speeches
• Guaranteed by: Institute of East European Studies (21-UVES)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (100)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: yes / unlimited
• Key competences: critical thinking, data literacy, 4EU+ Flagship 2
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: distance
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Ekaterina Rycheva, Ph.D.

Annotation

This course will cover a wide range of topics related to modern Europe: climate change, democracy, migration, racial justice or the development of the mass media.
The course helps to develop the critical thinking and values needed to live and work in a modern globalized world.
Each lesson consists of a theoretical and practical part. The course involves the active work of students (individually, in pairs and in a group), discussions and project work.

Last update: Rycheva Ekaterina, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.12.2021)

Aim of the course

The aim of the course is to provide students with a broad overview of the basic principles of contemporary political linguistics, political communication strategies, theory of metaphor, metaphors as persuasive tools etc.

Last update: Rycheva Ekaterina, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.12.2021)

Literature

Citron, F. M., & Goldberg, A. E. (2014). Metaphorical sentences are more emotionally engaging than their literal counterparts. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(11), 2585–2595.

Drulák, P. (2004). Metaphors Europe Lives by: Language and Institutional Change of the European Union.

Drulák, P. (2009). Metafory studené války. Interpretace politického fenoménu. Praha: Portál.

Horolets, Anna. (2003). Conceptualising Europe Through Metaphors: A Way to Identity Formation?. Polish Sociological Review - POL SOCIOL REV. 115-129. 

Hodgkin, P. (1985). Medicine is war: and other medical metaphors. Br. Med. J. 291, 1820–1821.

Ferrari, F. (2007). Metaphor at work in the analysis of political discourse: investigating a “preventive war” persuasion strategy. Disc. Soc. 18, 603–625.

Grady, J. (2017). Using metaphor to influence public perceptions and policy: How metaphors can save the world. In E. Semino & Z. Demjén (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of metaphor and language (pp. 343–354). Routledge. 

Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors we live by. University of Chicago Press.

Musolff, A. (2010). Metaphor, nation and the Holocaust. Routledge.

Sontag, S. (1979). Illness as metaphor. Allen Lane.

Thibodeau, P. H., & Boroditsky, L. (2011). Metaphors we think with: The role of metaphor in reasoning. PloS One, 6(2), e16782.

Last update: Rycheva Ekaterina, Mgr., Ph.D. (02.12.2021)

Teaching methods

English

Link for the virtual mobility - join the course in Microsoft Teams https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MTk3MjlkOWItN2M3OC00ZGQzLTgzMDYtYmViNGRjYzllOWU5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22e09276da-f934-4086-bf08-8816a20414a2%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%225528ff57-080a-4402-896d-f4807dc173b2%22%7d

Last update: Rycheva Ekaterina, Mgr., Ph.D. (15.02.2022)

Russian

Distance learning via Microsoft Teams.

Last update: Rycheva Ekaterina, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.12.2021)

Requirements to the exam

Requirements:

- regular and active participation (max. 3 absences),

- project work.

Last update: Rycheva Ekaterina, Mgr., Ph.D. (02.12.2021)

Requisites for virtual mobility

• Knowledge of English - from the B2 level and higher (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)
• Field of Study - Linguistics, Sociology, Political Science or related fields.

Last update: Rycheva Ekaterina, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.12.2021)

Syllabus

1. Political Linguistics. Politics and Mass Media.

2. Communication Strategies. Communication Failures.

3. Introduction to the Theory of Metaphor.

4. Methodology of Analysis of Metaphors.

5. Functions of Metaphors.

6. National Metaphors and Personal Metaphors.

7. Speech Portrait of a Politician.

8. Metaphor “Europe is a House”.

9. Metaphor “Europe is a Mechanism”.

10. Metaphor “Europe is a Body”.

11. Metaphor “Europe is a Family”.

12. Metaphors in the Time of COVID-19.

Last update: Rycheva Ekaterina, Mgr., Ph.D. (02.12.2021)

Learning resources

Moodle for the course https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=13375#section-14

Last update: Rycheva Ekaterina, Mgr., Ph.D. (15.02.2022)