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Metaphor Man: Comments on David Brooks’ metaphor column

by Michael Erard April 15, 2011 Metaphor Man

New York Times columnist David Brooks recently promoted the importance of metaphor in his April 11th column. “Metaphors are not rhetorical frills at the edge of how we think,” Brooks wrote, “They are at the very heart of it.” To anyone who has learned and uses Strategic Frame Analysis and who has come to share [...]

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Metaphor Man: “A Wall Between Church and State”

by Michael Erard November 11, 2010 Metaphor Man

The debates in this most recent election cycle about the separation of church and state, and its presence or lack thereof in the Constitution, caused Metaphor Man to notice this comment on the Talking Points Memo blog. It traces the history of the metaphor of the wall separating church and state. This metaphor is attributed [...]

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Metaphor Man: Mixing Metaphors

by Michael Erard October 1, 2010 Metaphor Man

Colin Powell’s name recently crossed Metaphor Man’s email inbox, after his appearance on “Meet the Press” in which he was accused by Politico of “mixing his metaphors.”  What Powell said, verbatim, is this: “[T]he President … has to, I think, shift the way in which he has been doing things. I think the American people [...]

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