Figurative analogies and how they are resisted in British Public Bill Committee debates

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Metaphor and the Social World Pub Date : 2019-05-20 DOI:10.1075/MSW.17027.LAV

K. Y. R. D. Lavalette, C. Andone, G. Steen

引用次数: 3

Abstract

This paper studies metaphor use in British Public Bill Committee debates. It focuses on the way in which legislators frame their arguments in metaphorical terms under the form of figurative analogies. Because these figurative analogies can be misleading by oversimplifying the issue under discussion, resisting them by putting forward counter-argumentation is a crucial and necessary skill. The purpose of this paper is to explore the phenomenon of countering figurative analogies in legislative debates, and to show that resistance to figurative analogies is a complex phenomenon comprising various types of criticisms to different types of metaphor. To this end, we present qualitative analyses of a number of case studies of resistance to figurative analogies found in the British Public Bill Committee debates on the Education Bill 2010–11 by employing the three-dimensional model of metaphor (Steen, 2011) and the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation (Van Eemeren, 2010).

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比喻的类比，以及它们在英国公共法案委员会辩论中是如何被抵制的

本文研究了隐喻在英国公共法案委员会辩论中的使用。它侧重于立法者在比喻类比的形式下以隐喻的方式构建他们的论点的方式。因为这些比喻性的类比可能会因过度简化讨论中的问题而产生误导，所以通过提出反论证来抵制它们是一项至关重要和必要的技能。本文的目的是探讨立法辩论中反对比喻类比的现象，并表明对比喻类比的抵制是一个复杂的现象，包括对不同类型隐喻的各种批评。为此，我们采用隐喻的三维模型(Steen, 2011)和论证的语用辩证理论(Van Eemeren, 2010)，对英国公共法案委员会在2010 - 11年教育法案辩论中发现的一些抵制比喻类比的案例研究进行了定性分析。

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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.