视觉隐喻如何与言语事件相矛盾

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Metaphor and the Social World Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI:10.1075/msw.20001.aug

Anaïs Augé

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摘要

我们调查了英法媒体话语中与气候变化隐喻印记相关的不同解释。这种跨语言视角的动机是两种语言的特殊性，人们认为这两种语言可以促进对气候变化相关概念的不同理解。我们关注碳足迹这个比喻，它的含义可以与英语中的另一个气候变化比喻：指纹相比较。这两个源域具有高度特定和具体的意义，这些意义是从英语的词汇结构中解释出来的。然而，在法语中，这样的规范不能从定义类似概念的隐喻empreinte carbone（碳印记）的含义来解释。我们依靠英语和法语中这些隐喻表达的视觉表征来讨论与每个来源领域相关的特征：我们表明，视觉隐喻可以与言语隐喻解释中产生的期望相矛盾。

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How visual metaphors can contradict verbal occurrences

We investigate the different interpretations related to the metaphorical imprint of climate change in English and French media discourses. This cross-linguistic perspective is motivated by the particularities of both languages which have been assumed to promote different understandings of climate change-related concepts. We focus on the metaphor carbon footprint whose meaning can be compared to another climate change metaphor in English: fingerprint . These two source domains share a highly specific and concrete meaning interpreted from lexical constructions enabled by the English language. In French, however, such a specification cannot be interpreted from the meaning of the metaphor empreinte carbone ( carbon imprint ) which defines a similar concept. We rely on visual representations of these metaphorical expressions in English and French to discuss the characteristics associated with each source domain: we show that visual metaphors can contradict expectations emerging from the interpretations of verbal metaphors.

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Metaphor and the Social World LINGUISTICS-

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2.20

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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.