Metaphor in Specialist Discourse
1st Edition
Published on 16. December 2015
XII, 319 pages
978-90-272-6784-9 (ISBN)
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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.
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J. Berenike Herrmann | Tony Berber Sardinha
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- Metaphor in Specialist Discourse
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Dedication page
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgment
- Preface
- Section I. Introduction
- Metaphor in specialist discourse: Investigating metaphor use in specific and popularized discourse contexts
- 1. Idea for the book
- 2. Theoretical framework and methodologies
- 3. Overview
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Section II. Metaphor variation in specialist discourse
- Register variation and metaphor use: A multi-dimensional perspective
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The multi-feature multi-dimensional approach
- 3. Method
- 3.1 Corpus
- 3.2 Metaphor identification
- 3.3 Tagging
- 3.4 Variables
- 4. Results
- 4.1 Question 1: Relationship between metaphor and previous dimensions of variation
- 4.2 Question 2: Dimensions of variation
- 4.3 Question 3: Significance of register distinctions
- 4.4 Question 4: Cutting across register differences
- 5. Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Appendix
- Metaphors in psychology genres: Counseling vs. academic lectures
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The corpora
- 2.1 The counseling corpus
- 2.2 The academic lecture corpus
- 3. Method
- 3.1 The target domains
- 3.2 Identification of linguistic metaphors
- 3.3 Grouping metaphorical expressions and formulating conceptual metaphors
- 4. Results
- 4.1 Love metaphors
- 4.2 anger metaphors
- 5. Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Section III. Metaphor in specific contexts
- Payback and punishment: Figurative language in Scottish penal policy
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Context of the present analysis
- 3. Method
- 4. Findings from automatic frequency analysis
- 4.1 Most frequent figuratively-used lexical words
- 4.2 Payback
- 5. Findings from manual analysis
- 5.1 Deliver
- 5.2 Manage, management
- 6. Conclusion
- Acknowledgement
- References
- They have to die for the goals: War metaphors in English and German football radio commentary
- 1. Football - A popularised specialist discourse domain
- 2. Methodology
- 2.1 Metaphor identification
- 2.2 Quantitative analysis
- 2.3 Qualitative analysis
- 3. Corpus design
- 3.1 Why radio commentaries?
- 3.2 Compilation of the corpus
- 4. Results
- 4.1 Quantitative analysis
- 4.2 Qualitative analysis
- 5. Comparison
- 6. Specialist terms, specialist metaphor
- References
- The production line as a context for low metaphoricity: Exploring links between gestures, iconicity, and artefacts on a factory shop floor
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Gestures, metonymy, and metaphor
- 1.2 The relationship between metaphor and metonymy
- 2. The salmon factory
- 3. Methods
- 4. Types of gestures at the salmon factory
- 4.1 Conversational gesturing
- 4.2 Technical gesturing
- 5. Discussion
- 6. Gesture, metaphor, and language
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Section IV. Metaphor in science writing
- High on metaphor, low on simile? An examination of metaphor type in sub-registers of academic prose
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Metaphor types
- 3. Method
- 3.1 Materials
- 3.2 Resources
- 3.3 Procedure
- 3.4 Reliability
- 3.5 Protocol
- 4. Analyses and discussion
- 4.1 Bulk analysis of relation to metaphor across academic sub-registers
- 4.2 Analysis of metaphor type across academic sub-registers
- 4.3 Humanities & arts
- 4.4 Social Science
- 4.5 Natural Sciences
- 4.6 Politics, law, and education
- 5. Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- A mere metaphor? Framings of the concept of metaphor in biological specialist communication
- 1. Conflicting frames of biological metaphor: An example
- 2. Metaphor as a heckler at the back, a Trojan horse or sonorous harmonics
- 3. Analyzing scientific metaphor: Method and material
- 4. Analysis: Framing metaphor
- 4.1 Frame no 1: Metaphor as inferior and commonsensical knowledge
- 4.2 Frame no 2: Metaphor as a visualization tool within scientific discourse
- 4.3 Frame no 3: Metaphor for communicating science outside scientific discourse
- 4.4 Frame no 4: Metaphors as pre-theoretical heuristic devices or hypotheses
- 4.5 Frame no 5: Metaphor as a general frame of reference/scientific-ideological perspective
- 5. Conclusion: Rhetorical de- and re-metaphorization
- References
- Dynamical systems metaphors
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Further history of the development of dynamical systems analysis
- 1.2 Purposes of this chapter
- 2. Study of metaphors describing dynamical systems in six fields
- 2.1 Method
- 2.2 Results
- 3. Discussion and conclusion
- 3.1 The conceptual metaphors used
- 3.2 Innovative or novel metaphors
- 3.3 Specialized sub-mappings fine-tune the metaphors
- 3.4 Linkages among sub-mappings
- 3.5 Adequacy of metaphors and epistemic mystification
- 3.6 Conclusions and suggestions for better use of metaphor
- References
- Section V. Metaphor and popularization
- Metaphor, news discourse and knowledge
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theoretical framework
- 3. Materials and methods
- 3.1 The corpus
- 3.2 The target domains
- 3.3 Metaphor identification
- 4. Results
- 4.1 Aetiology
- 4.2 Processes
- 5. Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Metaphor as tools of enrolment: A case study exploration of the policy press release genre in regards to the Alberta SuperNet
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Background notes to the initiative under investigation
- 3. Method
- 4. Findings
- 4.1 Supernet as a person/super-human
- 4.2 Supernet as a highway/transportation
- 4.3 Technology policymaking as a competition
- 5. Significance
- 5.1 supernet as a person/super-human
- 5.2 supernet as a highway/transportation
- 5.3 technology policymaking as a competition
- 6. Summary and concluding remarks
- References
- Appendix
- Section VI. Conclusion
- Metaphor in specialist discourse: Insights and implications for metaphor studies and beyond
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Where this volume has taken us
- 3. Issues remaining
- 4. Conclusion
- References
- Index
