Violence metaphors for cancer

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Metaphor and the Social World Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI:10.1075/msw.19005.wac

D. Y. Wackers, H. Plug, G. Steen

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Abstract The use of violence metaphors for cancer has been widely criticised both in academic and non-academic contexts (see Harrington, 2012; Semino et al., 2015). Whereas previous research on violence metaphors for cancer has focused on the use and functions of these metaphors by and for different stakeholder groups, no studies to date have examined the (various) arguments that are raised in public discourse that is critical of said metaphors. Applying concepts from pragma-dialectical argumentation theory (Van Eemeren & Grootendorst, 1992), this paper sets out to analyse types of argumentation occurring in critical public discussions of violence metaphors for cancer. Close argumentative analyses of actual discourse examples will be provided in order to illustrate the differences between two types of argumentation in particular, i.e. pragmatic and symptomatic argumentation.

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癌症的暴力隐喻

摘要癌症暴力隐喻的使用在学术和非学术背景下受到了广泛批评（见Harrington，2012；Semino等人，2015）。尽管之前对癌症暴力隐喻的研究侧重于不同利益相关者群体对这些隐喻的使用和功能，但迄今为止，没有研究研究公众话语中提出的批评这些隐喻的（各种）论点。本文运用语用-辩证论证理论（Van Eemeren&Grootendorst，1992）中的概念，分析了癌症暴力隐喻的批判性公众讨论中出现的论证类型。为了说明两种论证类型（即语用论证和症状论证）之间的差异，我们将对实际话语的例子进行仔细的论证分析。

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Metaphor and the Social World LINGUISTICS-

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2.20

自引率

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.