How politicians have cynically used metaphor to imply meaning through language.
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Languages don’t have a beginning that can be compared to the birth of a living being.
Swift, like all writers, draws from her literary forebears to craft new works.
Because they help to create a shared understanding, metaphors can play a critical role in navigating the gap between the knowledge patients and health-care providers bring.
The danger in these metaphors is they can subconsciously discourage reinterpretation, which can further contribute to sexist, racist and colonial influence in historical writing.
The metaphor of a collective “carpet of immunity” invites us to imagine immunity as a collaborative project, spreading out to protect those for whom the end of mandates means increased vulnerability.
Gardening provides a helpful metaphor to help us understand how individual and platform approaches to misinformation need to be accompanied by policy and cultural reforms.
Metaphors are not used for their own sake in politics, but as part of a strategy to persuade a particular audience to accept a point of view, and act accordingly
Media outlets used visual metaphors to explain to the public how election results would emerge.
Those with a diagnosis of schizophrenia may be more likely to interpret metaphorical thoughts literally.
For Germans, this is not a battle, it’s a ‘long distance run’.
Compared to other politicians who tend to be indirect and evasive, Nkrumah was direct, explicit and assertive.
Displaced by a landslide, Ugandan survivors could not speak the language of the region where they were relocated - but music allowed them a voice.
The idea of CRISPR as scissors ignores an entire ecosystem of moving parts that are crucial for understanding the awe-inspiring, crazy thing scientists are trying to do when they attempt gene editing.
It’s hard to know where to start. But using the right language can help.
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