Lakoff via Burke: Hillary, Bernie, and the Narrative Challenge to the Metaphor

KB Journal: The Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society Apr 2021 web Open Access

Lakoff via Burke: Hillary, Bernie, and the Narrative Challenge to the Metaphor

Abstract

This paper situates Lakoff’s metaphoric theory of political affiliation within Burke’s classification of poetic forms, and finds that Lakoff’s strict father and nurturant parent worldviews align with Burke’s tragic and comic forms. However, applying this to the 2016 Democratic debates complicates Lakoff’s view of political identity, and suggests that such identities are still better understood through the full range of Burkean identification, in which narrative and metaphor play important, but not singular, roles.

Journal: KB Journal: The Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society
Published: 2021-04
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Topics: modern rhetorical theory
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