Political parties play an important role in offering voters some choices about European Union (EU) politics. The literature on party positions on European integration rely largely, from a methodological point of view, on coding of manifestos and expert surveys. This paper opts for a different approach to the study of party positions on European integration based on the analysis of metaphors used by parties in their discourse about the future form of European integration. Although analysis of metaphors has been providing an increasingly popular tool for examining international politics since the early 1990s, its application to studies of European integration and the EU has been much scarcer. On the basis of key conceptual metaphors used in discourses on the future of the EU that we identified from the relevant literature as well as the corpus itself, we analyse Czech parties’ Euromanifestos issued between 2004 and 2014. The analysis is subsequently projected onto party positions on European integration and Euroscepticism.

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捷克政党对欧盟终结的立场：概念隐喻方法

政党在为选民提供有关欧盟 (EU) 政治的一些选择方面发挥着重要作用。从方法论的角度来看，关于欧洲一体化政党立场的文献在很大程度上依赖于宣言和专家调查的编码。本文基于对政党在讨论欧洲一体化未来形式时使用的隐喻的分析，选择了一种不同的方法来研究政党对欧洲一体化的立场。尽管自 1990 年代初以来，隐喻分析一直为研究国际政治提供越来越流行的工具，但它在欧洲一体化和欧盟研究中的应用却少得多。