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Variation in Political Metaphor

Author : Julien Perrez,Min Reuchamps,Paul H. Thibodeau
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262219

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Variation in Political Metaphor by Julien Perrez,Min Reuchamps,Paul H. Thibodeau Pdf

The objective of this book is to understand variation in political metaphor. Political metaphors are distinctive and important because they are used to achieve political goals: to persuade, to shape expectations, to realize specific objectives and actions. The analyses in the book go beyond the mere identification of conceptual metaphors in discourse to show how political metaphors function in the real world. It starts from the finding that the same conceptual domains are used to characterize politics, political entities and political issues. Yet, the specific metaphors used to describe these conceptual domains often change. This book explores some of the reasons for this variation, including features of political leaders (e.g., their age and gender), countries, and other sociopolitical circumstances. This perspective yields a better understanding of the role(s) of metaphors in political discourse.

Metaphors in the Mind

Author : Jeannette Littlemore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108416566

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Metaphors in the Mind by Jeannette Littlemore Pdf

Explores the physical, psychological and social factors that shape the way in which people engage with embodied metaphor, including, for example, the shape of one's body, age, gender, physical or linguistic impairments, ideology and religious beliefs. It will appeal to students and researchers in cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology.

Political Metaphor Analysis

Author : Andreas Musolff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : 147429541X

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Political Metaphor Analysis by Andreas Musolff Pdf

"Political metaphors and related figurative discourse tools are characterised by their variability and contentiousness. Using them, discourse participants try to gain competitive advantage over others by offering their audiences new meaning nuances, challenging each other and announcing political initiatives. It is here that metaphor as a means to change meanings - and thus, to change social and political reality - comes into its own. Political Metaphor Analysis provides an innovative approach to the study of figurative language use in political discourse by presenting empirical analyses based on a large corpus of political metaphors and metonymies, linking these analyses to theoretical positions and assessing their limitations and perspectives for further exploration. The 'classic' model of conceptual metaphor analysis, pioneered by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and expanded and amended over the past thirty-five years, is critically examined with regard to new findings about the variation, historicity, pragmatic exploitation, comprehension and interpretation of metaphors. As a central new analytical category, the notion of "metaphor scenario" is proposed and tested against various sub-sets of data. It allows to link hypothesised conceptual metaphors to narrative, argumentative and evaluative patterns in actual discourse and understanding processes, so that their cognitive significance can be more reliably gauged and theoretically modelled."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Slowing Metaphor Down

Author : Gerard J. Steen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 44,5 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.

Handbook of Political Discourse

Author : Piotr Cap
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800373570

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Handbook of Political Discourse by Piotr Cap Pdf

Synthesising diverse research avenues for politics, discourse, and political discourse, this cutting-edge Handbook examines the formative traditions, current theoretical and methodological landscape, and genres and domains over which political discourse extends.

Unpacking Metaphor-related Prepositions in Political Discourse

Author : Mokhtar Ounis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003837909

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Unpacking Metaphor-related Prepositions in Political Discourse by Mokhtar Ounis Pdf

This book explores the context around why English prepositions are used in figurative language more frequently than nouns and verbs, using corpus-based evidence to examine the most often used prepositions and how they are employed and for what purpose. While research on cognitive approaches to metaphor has significantly expanded in recent decades, little attention has been paid to prepositions as vehicles of figurative language, owing to their polysemous, complex, and inconsistent nature. To bridge this gap, Ounis introduces an innovative conceptual framework that integrates conceptual metaphor theory, diachronic linguistics, and discourse pragmatics. Drawing upon an extensive corpus of American presidential inaugural addresses, this book considers the linguistic, conceptual, pragmatic, and contextual dimensions of English prepositions, revealing the fascinating interplay between language, culture, and cognition. This volume will be of interest to scholars in pragmatics, metaphor studies, English language, rhetoric studies, and historical linguistics.

Metaphor in Culture

Author : Zoltán Kövecses
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139444613

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Metaphor in Culture by Zoltán Kövecses Pdf

To what extent and in what ways is metaphorical thought relevant to an understanding of culture and society? More specifically: can the cognitive linguistic view of metaphor simultaneously explain both universality and diversity in metaphorical thought? Cognitive linguists have done important work on universal aspects of metaphor, but they have paid much less attention to why metaphors vary both interculturally and intraculturally as extensively as they do. In this book, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a new theory of metaphor variation. First, he identifies the major dimension of metaphor variation, that is, those social and cultural boundaries that signal discontinuities in human experience. Second, he describes which components, or aspects of conceptual metaphor are involved in metaphor variation, and how they are involved. Third, he isolates the main causes of metaphor variation. Fourth Professor Kövecses addresses the issue to the degree of cultural coherence in the interplay among conceptual metaphors, embodiment, and causes of metaphor variation.

The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language

Author : Elena Semino,Zsófia Demjén
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317374701

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The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language by Elena Semino,Zsófia Demjén Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research on metaphor and language. Featuring 35 chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume takes a broad view of the field of metaphor and language, and brings together diverse and distinct theoretical and applied perspectives to cover six key areas: Theoretical approaches to metaphor and language, covering Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Relevance Theory, Blending Theory and Dynamical Systems Theory; Methodological approaches to metaphor and language, discussing ways of identifying metaphors in verbal texts, images and gestures, as well as the use of corpus linguistics; Formal variation in patterns of metaphor use across text types, historical periods and languages; Functional variation of metaphor, in contexts including educational, commercial, scientific and political discourse, as well as online trolling; The applications of metaphor for problem solving, in business, education, healthcare and conflict situations; Language, metaphor, and cognitive development, examining the processing and comprehension of metaphors. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Metaphor is a must-have survey of this key field, and is essential reading for those interested in language and metaphor.

Political Metaphor Analysis

Author : Andreas Musolff
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441197009

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Political Metaphor Analysis by Andreas Musolff Pdf

This book explores the cognitively-oriented approach to metaphor studies, comparing it critically to other contemporary paradigms of metaphor in meaning. It incorporates cutting edge empirical data. In both semantics and cognitive linguistics, metaphor has gained central status over the past decades, chiefly on account of Lakoff and Johnson's 1980 book Metaphors We Live By, which has become a standard point of reference. Rather than advocating a 'pick and mix' combination of cognitive attitudes with theory and data from other paradigms, the book argues for the methodologically reflective comparison of theory traditions and acknowledgement of their strengths and weaknesses. This critical reflection on metaphor is an essential read for students of metaphor at an advanced undergraduate or postgraduate level. Each chapter outlines areas for further reading and research, and the book is built around data drawn from a multilingual research corpus of metaphors compiled from existing research, other corpora and internet data.

Cultural Linguistics and Critical Discourse Studies

Author : Monika Reif,Frank Polzenhagen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249524

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Cultural Linguistics and Critical Discourse Studies by Monika Reif,Frank Polzenhagen Pdf

The present volume explores the meeting ground between Critical Discourse Studies and Cultural Linguistics. The contributions investigate culture-specific conceptualisations, ways of framing and conceptual metaphors in political discourse, as well as cultural models, cultural stereotypes and stereotyping. The individual authors use quantitative (e.g. corpus-based approaches) and/or qualitative methods. They address a range of contexts, e.g. Europe, the US, Japan, West Africa, and a variety of topics, e.g. migration, presidential elections, identity, food culture, concepts of health. The papers included in this volume show that ideologies, the key concern of Critical Discourse Studies, cannot be analysed independently of cultural conceptualisations. In a complementary, dialectic fashion, cultural conceptualisation, the central concern of Cultural Linguistics, have ideological implications, sometimes subtle, sometimes very straightforward. The present volume thus illustrates that travelling on this meeting ground is a natural and fruitful endeavour for both approaches.

Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse

Author : Anaïs Augé
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,5 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.

Cognitive Linguistics between Universality and Variation

Author : Mario Brdar,Milena Žic Fuchs,Ida Raffaelli
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443842860

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Cognitive Linguistics between Universality and Variation by Mario Brdar,Milena Žic Fuchs,Ida Raffaelli Pdf

“This volume takes up the challenge of assessing the present state of Cognitive Linguistics on the cutting edge between universality and variability. Claims of universality have never been explicitly articulated by cognitive linguists but studies on embodiment, motivation and cognitive processes such as metaphor, metonymy, and conceptual integration rely on general cognitive abilities and hence tacitly assume cross-linguistic commonalities. Variability within a language and across languages has received growing attention, especially in contrastive and corpus-based studies. Both perspectives are given ample space in the articles collected in the volume. “The present volume is the first to address the important issue of the position of Cognitive Linguistics between the poles of universality and variability. The editors’ insightful introduction draws compelling awareness to this as a yet unresolved question. At the same time, the fine contributions collected in the volume reflect state-of-the-art research in Cognitive Linguistics and point to innovative avenues for future research. The interdisciplinary range of subject areas, the new approaches pursued and the various methodologies employed makes this volume particularly valuable. It should be of great interest to scholars working in the fields of Cognitive Linguistics and in specific languages, particularly English and Slavic linguistics.” – Günter Radden, University of Hamburg

Variations on Metaphor

Author : Ilaria Rizzato,Francesca Strik Lievers,Elisabetta Zurru
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527573765

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Variations on Metaphor by Ilaria Rizzato,Francesca Strik Lievers,Elisabetta Zurru Pdf

Metaphor is a fascinating and, at the same time, complex phenomenon. It can be approached from a multitude of perspectives, and the linguistic realizations of metaphors vary not only across languages, but also across text genres, cultures, and time. This book reflects such complexity and variability by gathering a collection of studies that adopt different theoretical views and explore the actual uses of metaphors in different text types (literary, folkloric, journalistic, and scientific) and languages (Hungarian, Chinese, French, English, Italian, Latin, and Ancient Greek). By providing the reader with a view of metaphor and current metaphor research which is both diversified and coherent, this volume will provide insights for cognitive linguists, scholars involved in metaphor studies, and more generally readers interested in linguistic variation.

Speaking of Europe

Author : Kjersti Fløttum
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272034

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Speaking of Europe by Kjersti Fløttum Pdf

Recent years have witnessed the European Union struggling to keep Europe together in increasingly difficult economic and political circumstances. Communication within and about European institutions has become more challenging in this perplexing political environment, demonstrating the complex nature of EU political discourse. In order to highlight these complexities, the contributors to this volume present different theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of diverse facets of EU discourse, realized through a variety of linguistic and discursive phenomena. The approaches represent rhetorical theory, metaphor and conceptual theory, cognitive and corpus linguistics, lexical statistics, polyphony, logical semantics, pragmatic and philosophical perspectives. Through this multitude of perspectives the book complements existing approaches and suggests new approaches in the study of political discourse.

Politicians and Rhetoric

Author : J. Charteris-Black
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230501706

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Politicians and Rhetoric by J. Charteris-Black Pdf

This book analyzes the rhetoric of speeches by major British or American politicians and shows how metaphor is used systematically to create political myths of monsters, villains and heroes. Metaphors are shown to interact with other figures of speech to communicate subliminal meanings by drawing on the unconscious emotional association of words.