Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts : Current Crises / edited by Manuela Romano.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Romano, Manuela, editor.

Series:

Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] Series

Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] Series ; Volume 54

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphor--Political aspects.

Metaphor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2024]

Summary:

Metaphor studies is a vibrant and fascinating field. The present book brings together the work of influential researchers analyzing metaphor empirically from Critical Socio-Cognitive perspectives (CSCDA). The case studies focus on the role of metaphor as a powerful strategy for the creation of specific world views and ideological frames, as well as for their contestation in current crises.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Merging tenets and tools in socio-political metaphor analysis

I Construing reality through metaphor

Similes vs. metaphors. A case study on the conceptualisation of Covid-19 pandemic

From the closet to the stars. Metaphoric construals of gender identity in tumblr. A case study

“A wall of human misery”: Critical metaphor analysis and the discursive representation of Ukrainian refugees in British news articles

Polarising metaphors in far-right populist tweets: A comparative crosslinguistic study

Imagine a cell as a medieval fortress: Metaphor as a tool of explanation and persuasion in the Serbian pro-vaccination discourse

II Contesting the world through metaphor

War metaphors and conspiracy theories

Fighting metaphors: Social resistance to mainstream metaphors

The construction and survivability of “blaming” metaphors on Chinese social media

III Performing ideology through multimodal metaphor

Metaphorical perspectives on women in armed conflicts. Female depictions in the murals of Northern Ireland

Identifying and interpreting visual metaphors in political cartoons

Image-schematic structuring of metaphor in visual art from the perspective of socio-political context. A case study of Jerzy Kalina’s sculpture Pomnik Anonimowego Przechodnia ‘Monument of an Anonymous Passer-by’

Fire, war and revolution: Metaphor in media discourses of political protest

Index

Notes:

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Includes index.

ISBN:

3-11-100136-9