{"title":"Petruck, M. R. L. (Ed.). (2018). MetaNet","authors":"Stephen McGregor","doi":"10.1075/msw.19024.mcg","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.19024.mcg","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51936,"journal":{"name":"Metaphor and the Social World","volume":"10 1","pages":"176-182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46453960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is a difficult task literally heavy?","authors":"M. Tonković, M. Brdar, Kristina Š. Despot","doi":"10.1075/msw.18032.ton","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.18032.ton","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The conceptualization of abstract concepts is very often metaphorical, meaning that we think and talk about abstract concepts in terms of other, usually more concrete experiences. Recent research suggests that many abstract concepts are linked to bodily sensations. In two experiments, we tested a hypothesis about weight as an embodiment of difficulty. We hypothesized that participants wearing a heavy backpack would judge a psychomotor task to be more difficult than participants wearing an empty backpack. We also hypothesized that manipulation of psychomotor task difficulty would affect judgement of backpack heaviness. In line with our hypothesis, the results demonstrated that participants wearing a heavy backpack judged the task to be more difficult. The results of Experiment 2 demonstrated that, regardless of task difficulty, there was no difference in weight judgement when backpack weight was estimated on a 7-point scale. However, we found a difference in the judgement of backpack weight when participants were asked to express it in kilograms, where weight was judged to be lower by participants doing the easy task than by those doing the difficult task.","PeriodicalId":51936,"journal":{"name":"Metaphor and the Social World","volume":"10 1","pages":"100-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49351111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reclaiming a unified American narrative","authors":"L. Ritchie","doi":"10.1075/msw.18019.rit","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.18019.rit","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000As part of an on-going project to apply metaphor analysis to understanding the cultural polarization that has recently obstructed discourse about political and cultural issues in both the United States and Europe, this essay examines the lexical, grammatical, and story metaphors in a recent editorial column, by conservative columnist Ross Douthat, that also focuses on this topic. In a key section of the essay, Douthat uses a blend of complex grammatical and lexical metaphors to highlight the contrast between the traditional American identity narrative of settlement and conquest and a recently emerged liberal counter-narrative, which Douthat epitomizes by quoting former President Obama’s repeated insistence that “That’s not who we are.” Douthat’s argument is contextualized by the reproduction of an image with the title “Engraving of a massacre of Indian women and children in Idaho by 19th century white settlers,” which strengthens the contrasts and implied ironies embedded in his complex combination of grammatical and lexical metaphors. These relationships are brought into sharp focus through the metaphor-led analysis of the text and its interaction with the image, demonstrating the value of this approach to discourse analysis.","PeriodicalId":51936,"journal":{"name":"Metaphor and the Social World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44429838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"W. Kudszus & R. Trim (2018). Métaphores de l’Austérité et Austérité des Métaphores / Metaphors of Austerity and the Austerity of Metaphors","authors":"Justine Paris","doi":"10.1075/msw.19003.par","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.19003.par","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews Metaphores de l’Austerite et Austerite des Metaphores 978-2-343-13801-5","PeriodicalId":51936,"journal":{"name":"Metaphor and the Social World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43919456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joachim Peters, Natalie Dykes, M. Habermann, C. Ostgathe, M. Heckel
{"title":"Metaphors in German newspaper articles on multidrug-resistant bacteria in clinical contexts, 1995–2015","authors":"Joachim Peters, Natalie Dykes, M. Habermann, C. Ostgathe, M. Heckel","doi":"10.1075/msw.18006.pet","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.18006.pet","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The study investigates the usage of metaphorical structures in the German press discourse on multi-resistant\u0000 pathogens in the clinical context by applying methods of qualitative discourse analysis to a corpus of 900 newspaper and magazine\u0000 articles published between 1995–2015. The study shows that metaphors are of key importance for the processes of knowledge\u0000 transfer, emotion production and persuasion. Metaphors are assigned to one of three general principles (mechanising explanation\u0000 patterns, gain and loss of control, agentivity and personification) and to seven dominant source domains which structure the\u0000 discourse through frequent argumentation structures: war, economy, space, machines, water, police and crime, sports and games. The\u0000 occurrence of metaphor is – as previous research in other areas has shown – universal to all examined press texts; variation is limited to the thematic focus of individual argumentation structures between the different texts.","PeriodicalId":51936,"journal":{"name":"Metaphor and the Social World","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41414454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Employing cognitive metonymy theory in the analysis of semantic relations between source and target text in\u0000 translation","authors":"C. Denroche","doi":"10.1075/MSW.18024.DER","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/MSW.18024.DER","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article offers a model of translation which frames semantic relations between source- and target-text\u0000 elements in terms of metonymy, and translation in terms of metonymic processing. Translators/interpreters constantly use\u0000 approximations rather than exact one-to-one correspondences in their work, as meaning making is by nature partial and built-in\u0000 matches between language systems do not exist. Approximation is identified as a recurrent theme in Translation Studies, while\u0000 Metonymy Studies is seen as providing a toolkit for describing in detail the approximate semantic relations between source- and\u0000 target-text elements. Models from Metonymy Studies are applied to two translation case studies and a translation revision case\u0000 study. An original typology of metonymic relations is proposed based on whether or not source and target are encoded\u0000 linguistically as vehicle and topic respectively. It is concluded that the semantic relations between source- and target-text\u0000 elements in translation are distinctive in two respects: (1) they are characterized by facetization and zone activation rather\u0000 than metonymization; (2) they are examples of Topic metonymy (both source and target concepts are encoded) and Code-switching\u0000 metonymy (the source and target concepts are encoded in different languages).","PeriodicalId":51936,"journal":{"name":"Metaphor and the Social World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42671909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}