Re-reading of Winston Churchill’s Postwar Speech “The Sinews of Peace” (1946): - Metaphoric Success and Limitations as a Deliberative Genre -
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This thesis aims to analyze Winston Churchill’s postwar Fulton Address, “The Sinews of Peace”, its metaphoric strengths and limitations from the perspective of deliberative genre. More famously known as the “Iron Curtain” speech, this speech’s archetypal metaphor is a theatrical metaphor of ‘iron curtain’ which has been frequently analyzed in the past. In contrast, other metaphors such as ‘sinews’ (body, muscle metaphor), ‘Tower of Babel’ and ‘Temple of Peace’ (biblical, religious metaphor) have received less attention. We will attempt to evaluate the functions of these metaphors as well as their overall effect in correlation with audience reception. Another noticeable and interesting term “English-Speaking peoples” coined by Churchill serves as an aphorism connected to “fraternal association” which indicates a rather insensitive approach that alienated non-English speaking peoples. In addition, a number of previous researches defines this speech more as an epideictic, not a deliberative speech and therefore failed politically. However, we will re-read this speech as a deliberative genre and evaluate relevant factors by close textual analysis. “The Sinews of Peace”, as a deliberative genre, can be argued as being persuasive and a metaphoric success that transcends over time and culture.
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This thesis aims to analyze Winston Churchill’s postwar Fulton Address, “The Sinews of Peace”, its metaphoric strengths and limitations from the perspective of deliberative genre. More famously known as the “Iron Curtain” speech, this speech’s archetypal metaphor is a theatrical metaphor of ‘iron curtain’ which has been frequently analyzed in the past. In contrast, other metaphors such as ‘sinews’ (body, muscle metaphor), ‘Tower of Babel’ and ‘Temple of Peace’ (biblical, religious metaphor) have received less attention. We will attempt to evaluate the functions of these metaphors as well as their overall effect in correlation with audience reception. Another noticeable and interesting term “English-Speaking peoples” coined by Churchill serves as an aphorism connected to “fraternal association” which indicates a rather insensitive approach that alienated non-English speaking peoples. In addition, a number of previous researches defines this speech more as an epideictic, not a deliberative speech and therefore failed politically. However, we will re-read this speech as a deliberative genre and evaluate relevant factors by close textual analysis. “The Sinews of Peace”, as a deliberative genre, can be argued as being persuasive and a metaphoric success that transcends over time and culture.
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