Warring with Words

This volume brings together a team of eminent scholars from a wide range of disciplines -- including social psychology, political science and international relations -- to document the current thinking on the many ways in which narrative and metaphor function as cognitive and rhetorical instruments in discourse around politics and to explore the potential for the two perspectives to be employed more often in combination. It focuses particularly on the prevalence of dysfunctional political narratives and metaphors and the potential for them to be critiqued and effectively amended.

Michael Hanne founded the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Auckland in 1995 and directed it until 2010. His recent research has focused on the role of narrative and metaphor in the construction of a wide range of disciplines from medicine to politics, to education and the law. He has written articles advocating closer cooperation between narrative scholars and metaphor scholars in the various disciplines. William D. Crano is Oskamp Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department at Claremont Graduate University. He has published widely on research on communication and persuasion, especially the influence of minorities on the majority. His field research is directed toward applications of persuasive principles in the prevention of adolescent drug misuse. Jeffery Scott Mio is the director of the M.S. in Psychology Program at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Illinois, Chicago, in 1984. His main lines of research are in how metaphors are used in political persuasion and in the teaching of multicultural psychology, having authored or edited numerous articles and books in both areas.

W.D. Crano, Preface. M Hanne, An Introduction to the 'Warring with Words' Project. P.L. Hammack, Mind, Story, Society: The Political Psychology of Narrative. M. Sinding, Governing Spirits: Body Politic Scenarios and Schemas in the French Revolution Debate. C. Bottici, The Politics of the Past: The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations. A.T.R. Wibben, On Narrative, Metaphor & the Politics of Security. M. Danner and M. Hanne, A Conversation with Mark Danner. M.P. Marks, Metaphors of International Cooperation. S. Wright and C. Shore, From Saving Private Ryan to Building Team America: Presidential Oratory and the Art of Interpellation. J. Liu and S.S. Khan, Nation Building through Historical Narratives in Pre-Independence India: Gandhi, Nehru, Savarkar, and Golwalkar as Entrepreneurs of Identity. J.S. Mio, Responses to Metaphors in Politics: Continued Explorations of the Metaphor Extension Hypothesis. L. Bougher, Cognitive Coherence in Politics: Unifying Metaphor and Narrative in Civic Cognition. W.D. Crano, Useful Strategies in the War of Words.