TY - BOOK AU - Asenjo,Roberto AU - Cuenca,Maria-Josep AU - Dolores Porto,M. AU - Filardo-Llamas,Laura AU - Forceville,Charles AU - Górska,Elżbieta AU - Hart,Christopher AU - Jin,Ying AU - Koller,Veronika AU - Muelas-Gil,María AU - Musolff,Andreas AU - Peterssen,Silvia AU - Roldán-García,Alba AU - Romano,Manuela AU - Silaški,Nadežda AU - Soares da Silva,Augusto AU - Tay,Dennis AU - Đurović,Tatjana TI - Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts: Current Crises T2 - Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , SN - 9783111001258 PY - 2024///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter Mouton KW - Gesellschaftspolitik KW - Kognitive Linguistik KW - Metapher KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh KW - Critical, Socio-Cognitive Approaches KW - Metaphor KW - Socio-Political Contexts N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111001364 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111001364 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111001364/original ER -