Metaphors in German newspaper articles on multidrug-resistant bacteria in clinical contexts, 1995–2015

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Metaphor and the Social World Pub Date : 2019-11-05 DOI:10.1075/msw.18006.pet

Joachim Peters, Natalie Dykes, M. Habermann, C. Ostgathe, M. Heckel

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Abstract

The study investigates the usage of metaphorical structures in the German press discourse on multi-resistant pathogens in the clinical context by applying methods of qualitative discourse analysis to a corpus of 900 newspaper and magazine articles published between 1995–2015. The study shows that metaphors are of key importance for the processes of knowledge transfer, emotion production and persuasion. Metaphors are assigned to one of three general principles (mechanising explanation patterns, gain and loss of control, agentivity and personification) and to seven dominant source domains which structure the discourse through frequent argumentation structures: war, economy, space, machines, water, police and crime, sports and games. The occurrence of metaphor is – as previous research in other areas has shown – universal to all examined press texts; variation is limited to the thematic focus of individual argumentation structures between the different texts.

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1995-2015年德国报纸关于临床多重耐药细菌文章中的隐喻

该研究通过对1995-2015年间发表的900篇报纸和杂志文章的定性话语分析方法，调查了德国媒体在临床语境中对多重耐药病原体的话语中隐喻结构的使用情况。研究表明，隐喻在知识转移、情感产生和说服过程中起着关键作用。隐喻被分配到三个一般原则中的一个(机械化解释模式，获得和失去控制，代理和拟人化)，以及七个主要的来源领域，这些领域通过频繁的论证结构来构建话语:战争，经济，空间，机器，水，警察和犯罪，体育和游戏。正如先前在其他领域的研究所表明的那样，隐喻的出现对所有被检查的新闻文本都是普遍的;不同文本之间的差异仅限于个别论证结构的主题焦点。

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Metaphor and the Social World LINGUISTICS-

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2.20

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11.10%

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期刊介绍： The journal Metaphor and the Social World aims to provide a forum for researchers to share with each other, and with potential research users, work that explores aspects of metaphor and the social world. The term “social world” signals the importance given to context (of metaphor use), to connections (e.g. across social, cognitive and discourse dimensions of metaphor use), and to communication (between individuals or across social groups). The journal is not restricted to a single disciplinary or theoretical framework but welcomes papers based in a range of theoretical approaches to metaphor, including discourse and cognitive linguistic approaches, provided that the theory adequately supports the empirical work. Metaphor may be dealt with as either a matter of language or of thought, or of both; what matters is that consideration is given to the social and discourse contexts in which metaphor is found. Furthermore, “metaphor” is broadly interpreted and articles are welcomed on metonymy and other types of figurative language. A further aim is to encourage the development of high-quality research methodology using metaphor as an investigative tool, and for investigating the nature of metaphor use, for example multi-modal discourse analytic or corpus linguistic approaches to metaphor data. The journal publishes various types of articles, including reports of empirical studies, key articles accompanied by short responses, reviews and meta-analyses with commentaries. The Forum section publishes short responses to papers or current issues.