Pull the weeds out or perish: Using pandemic metaphors to strengthen in-group solidarity in Turkish political discourse

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Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2022-03-31 DOI:10.1080/10926488.2021.1994840

Esranur Efeoğlu Özcan

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Political discourse relies heavily on specific discursive strategies to gain, exercise and sustain power. Among those are metaphors which have the power to persuade and the potential to carry certain ideological attachments with them. This study explores and discusses how political power holders in The Grand National Assembly of Turkey make use of conceptual metaphors while framing the COVID-19 outbreak. From 10 March to 10 June 2020, i.e. the time between the date of the first COVID-19 case in Turkey until the time when the government announced that the lockdown would start to ease, a total of 191 tweets were identified as metaphorically framing the pandemic. In accordance with Critical Metaphor Analysis and Discourse-Historical Approach, the results show that Turkish online political discourse uses COVID-19 metaphors in combination with specific argumentation schemes to foster self-presentationand promotes shared representations of Turkish national identity. The results also show that metaphorical framings of the pandemic in Turkish political discourse fit familiar experience patterns with roots in cultural and religious presuppositions. It is argued that the conceptual metaphors manifested in this crisis discourse act as significant tools to influence public opinion.

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拔除杂草或灭亡:在土耳其政治话语中使用流行病隐喻来加强群体内团结

摘要政治话语在很大程度上依赖于特定的话语策略来获得、行使和维持权力。其中包括隐喻，它们具有说服力，并有可能携带某些意识形态依恋。本研究探讨并讨论了土耳其大国民议会中的政治权力者在界定新冠肺炎疫情时如何利用概念隐喻。2020年3月10日至6月10日，即从土耳其出现第一例新冠肺炎病例之日到政府宣布封锁将开始放松之时，共有191条推文被认为是对疫情的隐喻。根据批判性隐喻分析和话语历史方法，研究结果表明，土耳其网络政治话语使用新冠肺炎隐喻并结合具体的论证方案来促进自我表达，促进土耳其民族认同的共同表达。研究结果还表明，土耳其政治话语中对疫情的隐喻框架符合人们熟悉的经验模式，这些模式植根于文化和宗教预设。有人认为，危机话语中的概念隐喻是影响公众舆论的重要工具。

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期刊介绍： Metaphor and Symbol: A Quarterly Journal is an innovative, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of metaphor and other figurative devices in language (e.g., metonymy, irony) and other expressive forms (e.g., gesture and bodily actions, artworks, music, multimodal media). The journal is interested in original, empirical, and theoretical research that incorporates psychological experimental studies, linguistic and corpus linguistic studies, cross-cultural/linguistic comparisons, computational modeling, philosophical analyzes, and literary/artistic interpretations. A common theme connecting published work in the journal is the examination of the interface of figurative language and expression with cognitive, bodily, and cultural experience; hence, the journal''s international editorial board is composed of scholars and experts in the fields of psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, literature, and media studies.