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Metaphor in Specialist Discourse

Author : J. Berenike Herrmann,Tony Berber Sardinha
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267849

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Metaphor in Specialist Discourse by J. Berenike Herrmann,Tony Berber Sardinha Pdf

Metaphor in Specialist Discourse presents multiple perspectives on metaphor use in specialist and popularized discourse contexts. Using genre and register as starting parameters for deeper exploration, and pushing the boundaries further to open up new areas and possibilities, ten independent articles investigate metaphor use across a range of specialist domains of discourse, such as biology research articles, psychological counseling, soccer commentaries, workfloor communication, and penal policy documents. Framed by two theoretical chapters, the book is a contribution to the study of metaphor use in distinct discourse settings that will be of value to linguists and metaphor scholars of different persuasions, graduate students of linguistics and related disciplines, and practitioners of specialized areas with an interest in (verbal or gestural) language use in their areas of expertise. It shows that aspects of discourse variation are the beginning of, not an afterthought to, accurate empirical metaphor studies.

Metaphor in Discourse

Author : Elena Semino,Semino Elena
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521867306

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Metaphor in Discourse by Elena Semino,Semino Elena Pdf

This book discusses metaphor at work in a variety of linguistic contexts, from election leaflets to specialist scientific articles.

Metaphor in Economics and Specialised Discourse

Author : Maurizio Gotti,José Mateo,Francisco Yus
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3034340486

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Metaphor in Economics and Specialised Discourse by Maurizio Gotti,José Mateo,Francisco Yus Pdf

This book approaches metaphor in specialised discourses, covering various fields. The studies presented in the book adopt different research frameworks, ranging from pragmatics to conceptual metaphor theory, among others. The book is divided into three Sections that analyse major specialised discourses where metaphor is frequently found and the role that metaphor plays in these discourses. The first Section approaches the discourse of Business and Economics from different perspectives. The second Section addresses the use of metaphor in politics, diplomacy and law. Finally, Section three covers the use of metaphors in other specialised discourses such as marine, fashion, gender or health.

Metaphor in Educational Discourse

Author : Lynne Cameron
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441175649

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Metaphor in Educational Discourse by Lynne Cameron Pdf

'Metaphor in Educational Discourse is a superb piece of applied linguistics research that integrates Vygotsky's theory of concepts with current work on metaphor into a coherent framework for investigating how teachers and learners negotiate figurative language in order to promote development in the classroom setting. In what is likely to become the standard for future studies in this area, Lynne Cameron meticulously demonstrates the central role of linguistic metaphors in classroom learning - designed to lead learners to a deeper understanding of complex mathematical and scientific concepts.' James P. Lantolf, Professor of Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University. This book reports research into metaphor in use with school students. The setting for the research is a UK school and the participants are around ten years old, with their first language well established but still developing concepts and understandings. Close examination of a corpus of classroom spoken discourse reveals how metaphor is employed by their teachers, not just in explaining ideas, but, in managing and mediating the activity of the classroom and the learning of the students. Particular issues discussed include: the problems of identifying metaphors in spoken discourse, the conventionalism of metaphors in the discourse of socio-cultural groups, and how a socio-cultural approach can account for systematicity in metaphor use.

Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse

Author : Anaïs Augé
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000892277

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Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse by Anaïs Augé Pdf

This volume sheds light on the argumentative role of metaphor in climate change discourse, unpacking the ways in which stakeholders use specific metaphors to influence perceptions of the climate crisis. While existing research has explored the explanatory function of metaphors in communication on climate change, this book offers an alternative view, one which posits that metaphors can go beyond disseminating scientific observations to promoting biases in the depiction of these observations. Augé analyses oft-used ideas in climate change communication, such as greenwashing, drawn from a wide-ranging corpus spanning media discourse, scientific discourse, NGO communications, political speech, and social media messages in English. The book presents an overview of different arguments conveyed through metaphors around five key themes—climate change mitigation; the evolution of climate change; global and local effects; the significance of climate change in specific countries; and the relationship between climate change and other contemporary social issues. The volume highlights how the complexity of climate change often necessitates the use of metaphor and the value of further research on the argumentative function of metaphor in elucidating its ideological dimensions in climate crisis discourse. This book will be of interest to scholars in discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and environmental communication.

Metaphor in Use

Author : Fiona MacArthur,Jose Luis Oncins-Martinez,Manuel Sánchez-García,Ana María Piquer-Píriz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027223920

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Metaphor in Use by Fiona MacArthur,Jose Luis Oncins-Martinez,Manuel Sánchez-García,Ana María Piquer-Píriz Pdf

Metaphor is a fascinating phenomenon, but it is also complex and multi-faceted, varying in how it is manifested in different modes of expression, languages, cultures, or time-scales. How then can we reliably identify metaphors in different contexts? How does the language or culture of speakers and hearers affect the way metaphors are produced or interpreted? Are the methods employed to explore metaphors in one context applicable in others? The sixteen chapters that make up this volume offer not only detailed studies of the situated use of metaphor in language, gesture, and visuals around the world – providing important insights into the different factors that produce variation – but also careful explication and discussion of the methodological issues that arise when researchers approach metaphor in diverse 'real world' contexts. The book constitutes an important contribution to applied metaphor studies, and will prove an invaluable resource for the novice and experienced metaphor researcher alike.

Motion Metaphors in Music Criticism

Author : Nina Julich-Warpakowski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027256942

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Motion Metaphors in Music Criticism by Nina Julich-Warpakowski Pdf

The book explores (1) the motivation of motion expressions in Western classical music criticism in terms of conceptual metaphors (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, 1999) in two corpus studies, and (2) their perceived degree of metaphoricity among musicians and non-musicians in a rating study. The results show that while fundamental embodied conceptual metaphors like TIME IS MOTION certainly play a part in explaining why we speak of Western classical music as motion, it is the specific communicative setting of music criticism that determines the particular use of motion metaphors. Furthermore, the perceived metaphoricity of musical motion metaphors varies with participants’ musical background: musicians perceive musical motion expressions as more literal compared to non-musicians, showing that there are individual differences in the perception of metaphoricity.

Metaphor and Discourse

Author : A. Musolff,J. Zinken
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230594647

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Metaphor and Discourse by A. Musolff,J. Zinken Pdf

The contributors present a coherent collection of work on the functioning of metaphor in public discourse and related discourse areas from a broadly cognitive-linguistic background, providing a state-of-the-art overview of research on the discursive grounding of metaphor from a cognitive-linguistic perspective.

Metaphor in Educational Discourse

Author : Lynne Cameron
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441175649

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Metaphor in Educational Discourse by Lynne Cameron Pdf

'Metaphor in Educational Discourse is a superb piece of applied linguistics research that integrates Vygotsky's theory of concepts with current work on metaphor into a coherent framework for investigating how teachers and learners negotiate figurative language in order to promote development in the classroom setting. In what is likely to become the standard for future studies in this area, Lynne Cameron meticulously demonstrates the central role of linguistic metaphors in classroom learning - designed to lead learners to a deeper understanding of complex mathematical and scientific concepts.' James P. Lantolf, Professor of Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University. This book reports research into metaphor in use with school students. The setting for the research is a UK school and the participants are around ten years old, with their first language well established but still developing concepts and understandings. Close examination of a corpus of classroom spoken discourse reveals how metaphor is employed by their teachers, not just in explaining ideas, but, in managing and mediating the activity of the classroom and the learning of the students. Particular issues discussed include: the problems of identifying metaphors in spoken discourse, the conventionalism of metaphors in the discourse of socio-cultural groups, and how a socio-cultural approach can account for systematicity in metaphor use.

Metaphor, Nation and Discourse

Author : Ljiljana Šarić,Mateusz-Milan Stanojević
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262677

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Metaphor, Nation and Discourse by Ljiljana Šarić,Mateusz-Milan Stanojević Pdf

This edited volume examines how metaphors and related phenomena (metonymies, symbols, cultural models, stereotypes) lead to the discursive construal of a common element that brings the nation together. The central idea is that metaphor use must be questioned to lay bare the processes and the discursive power behind them. The chapters examine a range of contemporary and historical, monomodal and multimodal discourses, including politicians’ discourse, presidential speeches, newspapers, TV series, Catholic homilies, colonialist discourse, and various online sources. The approaches taken include political science, international relations, cultural studies, and linguistics. All contributions feature discursive constructivist views of metaphor, with clear sociocultural grounding, and the notion of metaphor as a framing device in constructing various aspects of nations and national identity. The volume will appeal to scholars in discourse analysis, metaphor studies, media studies, nationalism studies, and political science.

Conceptual Metaphors as an Organisational Framework of the Specialist Language of IT

Author : Magdalena Krawiec
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783847014522

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Conceptual Metaphors as an Organisational Framework of the Specialist Language of IT by Magdalena Krawiec Pdf

Magdalena Krawiec provides insight into the underlying conceptual structure of information technology and gives a plausible account of the patterns of metaphorical conceptualisation manifested in the specialist language of IT. Conceptual metaphors map our concrete experience onto abstract experiences, so as to effortlessly get hold of new emergent concepts. On the one hand, our ability to make our world thinkable rests on the use of our past experiences, whereas on the other hand, IT specialists familiarise themselves with yet unknown conceptual structures through the interaction with the specialist scenery. Specialists' thinkability of the specialist surroundings is grounded in their perception of similarity which enables them to adapt both conceptually and linguistically to their specialist practice.

Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics

Author : Rafael Alejo-González
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781040002858

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Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics by Rafael Alejo-González Pdf

Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics: Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus offers a model for building a corpus of oral EMI seminars. It demonstrates how incorporating metaphor to the process of corpus building affords a more comprehensive description of the role of metaphor in discourse. EMI is the specific context outlined in this volume, and as such it will be of particular interest to researchers in this area, though the design and model can be easily generalised and applied to other corpora focusing on metaphor. Alejo-González argues for the need to build such a corpus given the scarcity of corpora being tagged for metaphor as well as the shortage of those dealing with the EMI phenomenon. This book will be of practical use and interest to those researchers of corpus linguistics or related areas looking to explore metaphor through their corpus studies.

Slowing Metaphor Down

Author : Gerard J. Steen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249777

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Slowing Metaphor Down by Gerard J. Steen Pdf

If thinking can be fast or slow, metaphorical thinking can be fast and slow too. But metaphorical thinking does not occur as often and in the ways that many metaphor scholars today think. Slow metaphorical thinking does mean, however, that we can exert more control over metaphor than has previously been acknowledged. We can even offer resistance to metaphor. Deliberate Metaphor Theory (DMT) claims that there is an essential processing difference between non-deliberate and deliberate metaphor use which can explain all this. This book is the first full account of the DMT model for metaphor comprehension. It presents explicit conceptualization and formal operationalization, and is based on a well-known cognitive-psychological model for all utterance comprehension in discourse. The original three-dimensional model of DMT is here refined into a four-dimensional model, which reveals new research questions and discoveries about the use of metaphor. The book brings together numerous cognitive-scientific insights into metaphor. It has a high degree of interdisciplinary accessibility to all students of metaphor, whether master students, PhDs, post docs, or established academics.

Confronting Metaphor in Use

Author : Mara Sophia Zanotto,Lynne Cameron,Marilda do Couto Cavalcanti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027254176

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Confronting Metaphor in Use by Mara Sophia Zanotto,Lynne Cameron,Marilda do Couto Cavalcanti Pdf

It is timely for researchers to approach metaphor as social and situated, as a matter of language and discourse, and not just as a matter of thought. Over the last twenty five years, scholars have come to appreciate in depth the cognitive, motivated and embodied nature of metaphor, but have tended to background the linguistic form of metaphor and have largely ignored how this connects to its role in the discourses in which our lives are constructed and lived. This book brings language and social dimensions into the picture, offering snapshots of metaphor use in real language and in real lives across the very different cultures of Europe and Brazil and contributing to the theorizing of metaphor in discourse.

Drawing Attention to Metaphor

Author : Camilla Di Biase-Dyson,Markus Egg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261496

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Drawing Attention to Metaphor by Camilla Di Biase-Dyson,Markus Egg Pdf

The communicative act of drawing attention to metaphor is a relatively recent topic in metaphor studies and one that has remained contentious from a cognitive perspective. This book brings philologists of ancient languages together with metaphor experts from several modalities to interrogate whether ancient and modern texts and languages draw attention to figurative tropes in similar ways. In this way, the diachronic, multimodal and pluridisciplinary contributions to this volume critically review the theoretical frameworks underpinning metaphor marking and metaphor analysis from a completely new empirical basis.