Speakers who metaphorize together – argue together

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Metaphor and the Social World Pub Date : 2022-04-22 DOI:10.1075/msw.21016.jus

Konrad Juszczyk, Barbara Konat, Małgorzata Fabiszak

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Numerous studies on political discourse claim that metaphors help politicians to construct coherent arguments to convince their voters. Yet, most of them, with a few notable exceptions, do not adhere to any theory of argumentation. In this paper, we integrate Discourse Dynamic Approach to Metaphor with Inference Anchoring Theory to enhance our understanding of the interaction of metaphors and arguments in dynamic discourse. Our data come from three pre-election debates: Two in Poland and one in the US. The focus is on the reform of the health service. We show how discourse participants co-construct metaphors and arguments in an attempt to achieve their illocutionary goals. Their interaction is curbed by a number of discursive forces identified in the data. We propose a classification of types of interaction between metaphors and arguments, which can be further used for developing tools for automatic or semi-automatic identification of these types in large corpora.

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一起隐喻的演讲者——一起争论

许多关于政治话语的研究声称，隐喻有助于政治家构建连贯的论点来说服选民。然而，除了少数明显的例外，他们中的大多数人都不坚持任何论证理论。在本文中，我们将隐喻的语篇动态方法与推理锚定理论相结合，以增强我们对动态语篇中隐喻和论据相互作用的理解。我们的数据来自三场选前辩论：两场在波兰，一场在美国。重点是医疗服务改革。我们展示了话语参与者如何共同构建隐喻和论点，试图实现他们的言外目标。它们的相互作用受到数据中确定的一些话语力的限制。我们提出了隐喻和论据之间互动类型的分类，可以进一步用于开发大型语料库中自动或半自动识别这些类型的工具。

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Metaphor and the Social World LINGUISTICS-

CiteScore

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.