A multifactorial analysis of metaphors in political discourse

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Metaphor and the Social World Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI:10.1075/msw.19016.zen

Huiheng Zeng, D. Tay, K. Ahrens

引用次数: 13

Abstract

The rising prominence of women in politics has sparked a growing interest in comparing the language of male and female politicians. Many researchers have explored whether gender in politics has had an impact on their metaphor styles. While these studies have been oriented qualitatively and have concentrated on the two-way interaction between metaphor and gender, the possibility that metaphor and gender may interact with other additional factors is largely overlooked. This article adopts a quantitatively oriented approach complemented with textual analysis to explore potential multiple-way interactions between ‘metaphor’, ‘gender’, ‘speech section’ and ‘political role’ in political discourse. By conducting a case study of metaphor use in Hong Kong political speeches, we found evidence of gendered metaphors and their variability according to politicians’ political roles and different rhetorical sections in their speeches.

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政治话语中隐喻的多因素分析

随着女性在政界的地位日益突出，人们对比较男性和女性政治家的语言越来越感兴趣。许多研究人员都在探索政治中的性别是否会对他们的隐喻风格产生影响。这些研究以定性为导向，主要关注隐喻与性别的双向互动，而隐喻与性别与其他因素互动的可能性在很大程度上被忽视了。本文采用以定量为导向的方法，辅以文本分析，探讨政治话语中“隐喻”、“性别”、“言语部分”和“政治角色”之间潜在的多重互动关系。通过对香港政治演讲中隐喻使用的个案研究，我们发现了性别隐喻的证据，并根据政治家的政治角色和演讲中不同的修辞部分发现了性别隐喻的变化。

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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.