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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ; 54Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (VI, 334 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783111001258
  • 9783111001531
  • 9783111001364
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  • Issued also in print.
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
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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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