Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts
Current Crises
1st Edition
Published on 6. May 2024
VI, 334 pages
978-3-11-100136-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung, 22 s/w Tabellen, 25 farbige Abbildungen
2 b/w and 28 col. ill., 24 b/w tbl.
File size
7,75 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-11-100136-4 (9783111001364)
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Person
Manuela Romano
, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
Content
- Intro
- 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
