阿拉伯新闻话语中的季节性隐喻

IF 0.7 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Metaphor and the Social World Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI:10.1075/msw.18020.cha

S. Chatti

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摘要

摘要最近阿拉伯起义的修辞结构诉诸神话和隐喻，以引发民众起义的意识形态偏见两极分化。基于希腊的珀尔塞福涅神话和阿拉伯起义的新闻结构之间的一些惊人相似之处，本文深入探讨了使用季节性隐喻来发挥意识形态功能的倾斜平行性。对隐喻结构的语用方面的分析阐述了语料库研究的结果，重点是突尼斯和沙特新闻媒体中阿拉伯之春和阿拉伯之秋隐喻的搭配趋势。实证结果表明，反起义议程选择了与阿拉伯之秋隐喻一起出现的负价值搭配，而支持起义的意识形态则招募了正价值词汇来反映阿拉伯之春比喻所表达的解放之旅。本文将隐喻的认知理论与批判性隐喻视角的研究相结合，阐明了阿拉伯新闻话语中激励和引导民众起义形象化解释的意识形态。

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Seasonal metaphors in Arab journalistic discourse

Abstract The rhetorical fabric of the recent Arab uprisings resorts to mythology and metaphoricity to elicit an ideologically-biased polarization of the popular revolts. Building on some striking resemblances the Greek myth of Persephone and the journalistic construction of the Arab revolts hold in common, this paper delves into the oblique parallelism that informs the use of seasonal metaphors to serve ideological functions. The analysis of this pragmatic aspect of metaphorical structuring elaborates on findings of a corpus study, focusing on the collocational tendencies of the Arab Spring and Arab Autumn metaphors in Tunisian and Saudi press outlets. Empirical results show that the anti-revolts agenda selects negatively valued collocates to occur with the Arab Autumn metaphor, whereas the pro-revolts ideology recruits positively-valued lexis to mirror the emancipatory journey voiced by the Arab Spring trope. The paper uses a blend of cognitive theories of metaphor with research from a critical metaphor perspective to elucidate the ideologies which motivate and guide the figurative construal of the popular uprisings in Arab journalistic discourse.

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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.