Cattle, progress, and a victimized nation

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Metaphor and the Social World Pub Date : 2019-11-05 DOI:10.1075/msw.18011.smi

Graham Smith

引用次数: 9

Abstract

This paper analyzes three sources of discourse on immigration in the United States: congressional debates from the 1920s representing two polarized sides, a speech by President Obama, and a speech by President Trump. The goal of this analysis was to explore how the conceptual metaphors used in discussing immigration may have changed over the past century, in order to gain insight into the current polarization surrounding this topic. Results reveal striking similarities between Trump’s rhetoric and metaphorical framing and the 1920s anti-immigration side’s arguments, in that both situate the United States as a victim of immigration. In contrast, although there are fewer similarities between Obama’s metaphors and metaphorical frames and those used by earlier supporters of immigration, the claim that immigrants are a benefit to the United States remains constant.

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牛、进步和受害国

本文分析了美国移民话语的三个来源：20世纪20年代代表两极化的国会辩论、奥巴马总统的演讲和特朗普总统的演讲。这项分析的目的是探索在过去一个世纪里，讨论移民问题时使用的概念隐喻可能发生了怎样的变化，以深入了解当前围绕这一主题的两极分化。结果显示，特朗普的言辞和隐喻框架与20世纪20年代反移民方面的论点有着惊人的相似之处，都将美国视为移民的受害者。相比之下，尽管奥巴马的隐喻和隐喻框架与早期移民支持者使用的隐喻和比喻框架之间的相似性较小，但移民对美国有利的说法仍然存在。

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Metaphor and the Social World LINGUISTICS-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

11.10%

发文量

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.