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Štrkalj Despot, Kristina, Mirjana Tonković, and Ana Ostroški Anić. "The (Ir)relevance of Metaphorical Framing in Reasoning About the Covid-19 Problem." Collegium antropologicum 46, no. 3 (2022): 219–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5671/ca.46.3.5.
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Previous research has shown that different metaphorical framings lead people to reason differently, even about important social issues. Critics of such investigations argue that there is no empirical evidence to show that framing significantly influences how people think about real-world problems. In our experiment, we investigated the effects of different metaphorical framings on reasoning about possible solutions to the Covid-19 pandemic to verify the results of previous studies investigating hypothetical situations and showing the powerful influence of metaphor on people’s attempts at solving social problems. Randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions (war, football, and dance framing), participants were asked to imagine themselves as members of the government and, having read a short report about the current pandemic situation in Croatia, they were asked to answer questions regarding their proposed solutions. We found that different framings do not elicit different responses from the participants in terms of reform vs. enforce, local vs. global, and dominance vs. cooperation. The proposed solutions did not differ as a function of metaphorical framing. This result calls for sceptical scrutiny and additional in-depth and more extensive studies of the relevance and power of metaphorical framings in real-life situations.
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Andryukhina, T. V. "CROSS-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF METAPHORICAL FRAMING IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE." MGIMO Review of International Relations, no. 1(46) (February 28, 2016): 63–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2071-8160-2016-1-46-63-69.
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The article examines cross-cultural aspects of metaphorical framing in political discourse. The author notes the importance of conceptual metaphor in framing the conceptual domain of politics, political discourse as a whole, its perception as well as political reality itself. The author shares an opinion that the metaphorical structure of basic concepts of a nation always correlates with its fundamental cultural values. However, the examination of political discourse from the cross-cultural perspective reveals the cases of metaphor uses that don't meet the requirements of cultural coherence and may lead to negative cognitive and communicative consequences. Along with admitting a wide discrepancy between metaphorical models in western and oriental political discourse, the author gives some examples of metaphorical coherence as well as its violation in a number of basic metaphors in American, British and Russian political discourse. To illustrate how cross-cultural factors determine the specific character of metaphorical framing, the article analyses the dynamic character of metaphorical models that can realize diverse scenarios in different national varieties of political discourse. An observation is made about the dependence of metaphoric scenarios in different national varieties of political discourse on the cultural, historical, social and political components of the national cultural cognitive map. The latter is heterogeneous as it is structured by the objectified individual, group, and national verbal and nonverbal experience. This explains, for instance, why there are examples of similarity as well as discrepancy between metaphorical framing in ideologically different party varieties of political discourse within the national political discourse as well as in the rhetoric of politicians belonging to different generations. The observations are illustrated by cross-linguistic data proving the dynamic character of metaphorical models, their variability and potential for conveying new meaning nuances that reflect culture-specific characteristics of the political situation in discourse.
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BRUGMAN, BRITTA C., CHRISTIAN BURGERS, and BARBARA VIS. "Metaphorical framing in political discourse through words vs. concepts: a meta-analysis." Language and Cognition 11, no. 1 (2019): 41–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2019.5.
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abstractConceptual metaphor theory and other important theories in metaphor research are often experimentally tested by studying the effects of metaphorical frames on individuals’ reasoning. Metaphorical frames can be identified by at least two levels of analysis: words vs. concepts. Previous overviews of metaphorical-framing effects have mostly focused on metaphorical framing through words (metaphorical-words frames) rather than through concepts (metaphorical-concepts frames). This means that these overviews included only experimental studies that looked at variations in individual words instead of at the broader logic of messages. For this reason, we conducted a meta-analysis (k = 91, N = 34,783) to compare the persuasive impact of both types of metaphorical frames. Given that patterns of metaphor usage differ across discourse domains, and that effects may differ across modalities and discourse domains, we focused on one mode of presentation and one discourse domain only: verbal metaphorical framing in political discourse. Results showed that, compared to non-metaphorical frames, both metaphorical-words and metaphorical-concepts frames positively influenced beliefs and attitudes. Yet, these effects were larger for metaphorical-concepts frames. We therefore argue that future research should more explicitly describe and justify which level of analysis is chosen to examine the nature and effects of metaphorical framing.
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Begonja, Helga, and Diana Prodanović Stankić. "‘QUO VADIS, CORONA?’: METAPHORICAL FRAMING OF THE PANDEMIC IN DAILY PRESS." Годишњак Филозофског факултета у Новом Саду 48, no. 1-2 (2024): 263–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.19090/gff.v48i1-2.2357.
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The paper deals with the ways Croatian and Serbian daily newspapers wrote about the Covid-19 pandemic at its outbreak in 2020. The aim of the paper was to identify and describe metaphors in the selected corpus of texts in order to determine the metaphorical framing used in newspapers. This corpus-based research of media discourse was based on a qualitative bottom-up analysis that started from lexical metaphors found in the texts. The results of this study suggest that a whole range of metaphorical mappings is used to frame the pandemic in the media in Croatian and Serbian. The results indicate that in both languages the same conventional metaphors were used. The pandemic was metaphorically conceptualized as an opponent, as some kind of disaster such as fire, or war. Different elements of the metaphorical mapping were made salient and foregrounded, depending on the text type. The obtained results are largely in line with previous research on using metaphors to describe the process of dealing with diseases.
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Andryukhina, T. V. "CONTEXTUAL FACTORS OF METAPHORICAL FRAMING IN ECONOMIC DISCOURSE." Philology at MGIMO 19, no. 3 (2019): 5–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2019-3-19-5-13.
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This study takes an integrated discourse-cognitive approach to the analysis of contextual factors that motivate conceptual evolution of metaphorical frames in economic discourse. In contrast to looking at conceptual metaphor models in isolation or out of context, doing metaphor research from the perspective of contextual factors gives insight into the motivation of metaphor choice and origins of conceptual evolution as well as facilitates understanding and interpretation of metaphorical meaning construction. The evolutionary aspects of metaphorical frames in extra linguistic context of economic discourse have not been thoroughly covered in Russian research literature. This paper attempts to identify some contextual effects on metaphorical framing in economic discourse and analyze some examples evidencing the importance of discourse-cognitive approach for metaphorical frames evolution research. The theoretical framework of this study is formed by the groundbreaking theories of conceptual metaphor, metaphorical framing, conceptual evolution and abundant research examining metaphor dynamics in different types of discourse. The empirical data gleaned and analyzed in this paper indicate the dynamic variation of metaphorical frames motivated by the social context of economic discourse production.
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Panzeri, Francesca, Simona Di Paola, and Filippo Domaneschi. "Does the COVID-19 war metaphor influence reasoning?" PLOS ONE 16, no. 4 (2021): e0250651. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250651.
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In recent times, many alarm bells have begun to sound: the metaphorical presentation of the COVID-19 emergency as a war might be dangerous, because it could affect the way people conceptualize the pandemic and react to it, leading citizens to endorse authoritarianism and limitations to civil liberties. The idea that conceptual metaphors actually influence reasoning has been corroborated by Thibodeau and Boroditsky, who showed that, when crime is metaphorically presented as a beast, readers become more enforcement-oriented than when crime is metaphorically framed as a virus. Recently, Steen, Reijnierse and Burgers replied that this metaphorical framing effect does not seem to occur and suggested that the question should be rephrased about the conditions under which metaphors do or do not influence reasoning. In this paper, we investigate whether presenting the COVID-19 pandemic as a war affects people’s reasoning about the pandemic. Data collected suggest that the metaphorical framing effect does not occur by default. Rather, socio-political individual variables such as speakers’ political orientation and source of information favor the acceptance of metaphor congruent entailments: right-wing participants and participants relying on independent sources of information are those more conditioned by the COVID-19 war metaphor, thus more inclined to prefer bellicose options.
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Bogetić, Ksenija. "Language is a ‘Beautiful Creature’, not an ‘Old Fridge’." Metaphor and the Social World 7, no. 2 (2017): 190–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/msw.7.2.02bog.
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Abstract Direct metaphor has been widely studied from the cognitive perspective, but its functions in the communicative dimension (Steen, 2011) remain less well understood. This study investigates direct metaphor as a tool of metaphorical framing (Ottati et al., 2014; Ritchie & Cameron, 2014) in discourse, by examining a corpus of British newspaper texts on the topic of language and language change. The analysis of direct metaphors is sufficient to point to major ideologies of language and communication in the observed media context, which echo broader anxieties over social change, social organization and control. Most notably, unlike the meanings stressed in existing studies, the vast majority of direct metaphors are here found to serve the specific role of relational argumentation. This function is achieved through a kind of ‘corrective framing’, which explicitly juxtaposes two conflicting representations through an ‘A is B and not C’ type of metaphor. The findings are discussed with respect to deliberateness, metaphorical framing and rhetorical goals in discourse. It is hypothesized that corrective framing is among the major functions of direct metaphor in public discourse, which can influence public opinion in ways different from other metaphorically created representations.
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Skrynnikova, Inna. "Constructing the Image of Russia Through Metaphorical Framing." Logos et Praxis, no. 1 (March 2021): 49–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/lp.jvolsu.2021.1.6.
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The paper reveals the key role of metaphor as a discursive pragmatic mechanism for promoting a positive image of Russia and substantiates the effectiveness of metaphorical framing as a method of constructing the country's image, which is still controversial. The author has demonstrated the explanatory and manipulative effect of metaphorical framing in political and mass media communication. The study postulates that in framing of political events, the figurative language has both linguistic and conceptual content, and the metaphorical frame is a powerful tool for the formation of beliefs and ideologies. The author points out to the need to expand the metaphorical repertoire applied to construct the image of Russia, and possible ways to activate alternative interpretations of current socio-political events. Possible directions of metaphorical reframing of the country's image are outlined by fixing complex figurative frames in the minds of target audience and their impact on it. These may consist in rejecting the excessively militarized discourse around the country and focusing on its cultural heritage, academic achievements, willingness of and openness to enhanced international interaction. The paper concludes that the discursive construction of the affirmative Russian image within and outside the country can be achieved through employing a positively charged metaphorical national narrative, reframed to draw particular attention to the merits and gains of Russia.
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Bozdag, Utku. "Framing displaced persons : An analysis of Turkish media’s use of migration metaphors on Twitter." Intersections 10, no. 1 (2024): 117–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v10i1.1189.
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In recent years, social media has been recognized as instrumental in shaping the discourse around displaced persons, particularly through the power of metaphorical framing. Given that online communication can lead to real-world consequences for individuals, X (formerly known as Twitter) now stands out as a crucial platform for discussing migration issues in Turkey. However, while Twitter holds significant sway over public discourse in Turkey, there remains a research gap concerning its role in migration-related metaphorical framing. This study, employing critical metaphor analysis (CMA), delves into the metaphorical representations associated with the terms göçmen (‘migrant’), sığınmacı (‘asylum-seeker’), and mülteci (‘refugee’) in the tweets of four major Turkish media outlets: Hürriyet, Haber Türk, Sözcü, and Cumhuriyet. The findings reveal a predominant negative framing of all three terms, with göçmen and sığınmacı often equated with crime and mülteci with objectification. Also, the political inclination of the media outlets played a role, with those aligned closer to the Turkish government showcasing fewer negative frames. In conclusion, the study highlights the profound impact of media’s metaphorical framing, revealing its capacity to color public perceptions about displaced populations, a phenomenon accentuated by the specific terms chosen and the media’s political leanings.
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Dzyubenko, Anna I. "COGNITIVE ORGANISATION OF LITERARY IMAGE: METAPHORICAL FRAMING." Vestnik of Kostroma State University 30, no. 2 (2024): 176–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2024-30-2-176-182.
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Topicality of studying the artistic image, its ontological status and complex of functions in the paradigm of modern linguistics is determined by the need to understand the specifics of an artistic text as a result of the verbal and mental activity of the author and the receptive-interpretative activity of the reader in the process of aesthetic communication. An artistic image embodies the main qualities of an artistic text – its conceptual inability to reflect objective reality within the framework of conventionality or life-like strategies. A literary text appeals to the network of associative connections that arise for the addressee of an aesthetic statement in the process of perceiving such a text on the basis of everyday and spiritual experience, background knowledge, including those determined by the general cultural outlook of the individual. In the process of research, it was proven that an artistic image arises in the process of abstraction and in an artistic text can be realised through metaphors, as a result of which the reader gets the opportunity to decode implicit meanings with the help of visual representations and verbalise them. Based on the texts of novels by Vladimir Orlov “Danilov, the Violist”, “Pharmacist” and “Shevrikuka” it is established that the cognitive organisation of an artistic image is determined by metaphorical framing, which forms the foundation of artistic fiction: there is a transfer by similarity in relation to situations, events, characteristics of characters represented in artistic text, and knowledge, values and meanings that form the foundation of the addressee’s worldview.
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Chen, Hangqin. "A Framing Analysis of Chinese Political Discourse: Exemplified by the English Version of The 2021 Report on the Work of the Government." International Journal of Linguistics Studies 2, no. 2 (2022): 32–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijls.2022.2.2.5.
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This study, underpinned by critical framing theory, analyses the English version of The 2021 Report on the Work of the Government, instantiating the Chinese political discourse. First of all, this study extracts key semantic domains and keywords based on an online corpus processing program, Wmatrix. Second, metaphorical surface frames are identified in line with MIPVU, and then conceptual metaphors are summarized. It is found that the metaphorical frames WAR, ARCHITECTURE, and JOURNEY are activated in The 2021 Report on the Work of the Government by the use of such metaphorical words and expressions as a battle, lift out of, build, consolidate, speed up and step. This way of discourse framing is intended to construct the image of the Chinese government as a “leader” who encourages the Chinese people to join as “participants” in the state building. The traditional Chinese moral notion of Gongtianxia, 'the world being equally shared by all,' is the root of the discourse framing.
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Ahmad, Shuja. "The Language of War: Loss Gain Metaphorical Framing in the Context of the War on Terror." Central Asia 83, Winter (2019): 143–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.54418/ca-83.33.
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War has always been an important issue in philosophy. Very many philosophers have discussed different aspects of war. This paper, using Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) as theoretical frame work, focuses on the language of war. It discusses ‘War is Business’ metaphor that ensues Loss Gain framing - informing public/audience that going into conflict/war is gain and not going is loss; winning war is gain and losing war is loss; status quo is risk; enemy’s loss is our gain and our gain is enemy’s loss. Moreover, helping the refugees and providing aid to the victims is narrated as, Corporate Social Responsibility. Loss gain framing, like other framings, blocks criticism on the pretext that critics don’t want our gain and if we accept their arguments then there would be losses. This paper explains the way loss gain framing works in times of war and conflict. It focuses on the way this framing was instrumental in the context of the War on Terror in Afghanistan. The argument is: in the context of 9/11 leaders of both sides, especially Tony Blair, defined and framed the War on Terror in a way that it appeared that not going into war would entail great future losses.
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Korobko, Roman V. "Framing as a method of creating a film's metaphorical context." Journal of Flm Arts and Film Studies 11, no. 2 (2019): 79–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/vgik11279-86.
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This essay continues the study of the semiotics and synergetics of Framing in the Art of Cinematography which substantiates the hypothesis that framing (perspective) constitutes one of the most important codes of screen communication in its cinematographic and metaphorical contexts. Thus, framing is represented by two hierarchical levels of representation of contextual semiotic connections: the connection between mise-en-cadre and mise-en-scne (the level of the cinematographic form of film sign); and the relationship between cinematographic imagery, action and meaning (the level of the cinema sign).
 Framing consolidates the process of cinematography divided by the artistic and production dichotomy, which is especially important in the context of mass culture determined by the total industrialization of all areas of life, including cinema.
 The essay is based on the statement of Sergei Eisenstein that each high film work has the unity of two dialectical categories: the content (abstract language, part of logical thinking) and the form (emotional language, part of emotional-sensory thinking). It identifies and analyzes the spatial-temporal and linear-tonal features of cinematic framing as a method of expressing the metaphorical existential context of the crisis of Russian self-identification, using as examples a number of expressive episodes of the documentary film Anna: 618 (1980-1993; dir. Nikita Mikhalkov, DOPs: Pavel Lebeshev, Vadim Yusov, Vadim Alisov, and Elizbar Karavaev). This film work is explored as a study of the socio-cultural situation in modern Russia undertaken from a multi-faceted and multi-level authorial perspective associated with expressive cinematographic framing.
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Batori, Anna. "Hierarchical textual compositions and (post-)colonial framing in The View from Up Here." Short Film Studies 13, no. 2 (2023): 145–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/sfs_00101_1.
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The article analyses the hierarchical visual compositions and framing of Marco Calvani’s The View from Up Here and argues that its carefully structured compositions create a metaphorical imbalance in power between the two main characters, an American housewife and a Syrian refugee. The repeated use of low-angle camera positions and the claustrophobic framings adds a connotative layer to the film that emphasizes the subaltern refugee’s inferior status in the view of the American.
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N. Figar, Vladimir. "METAPHORICAL FRAMINGS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES ONLINE PRESS REPORTS ABOUT CHATGPT." PHILOLOGIA MEDIANA 15, no. 1 (2023): 381–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.46630/phm.15.2023.27.
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Through a combined quantitative-qualitative approach the paper aims to explore the densities and possible rhetorical effects of the most common metaphorical framings used in the New York Times online press reports about ChatGPT. The theoretical framework is based on the main tenets of conceptual metaphor theory (Lakoff and Johnson 2003[1980]), frame semantics (Fillmore 1982), and image schema theory (Johnson 1987). The initial stage involved the construction of a small specialized corpus which was tagged manually for the analysis in WordSmith Tools 6.0. Metaphor identification was conducted in line with MIPVU (STEEN et al. 2010). Quantitative analysis showed the highest density for containment, motion, and force metaphors. Living being, tool, conflict, and machine metaphors were also present, but not as frequent. The linear regression model (motion, force, living being) explained 61% of variance in the density of containment metaphors, and it was significant (p=.002). Additional linear regression models have also been tested. The results suggest the potential for interaction of these metaphor groups when they cooccur in discourse (i.e., they may work in concert to construct a specific viewpoint). Qualitative analysis showed a range of possible rhetorical effects that the identified metaphorical framings may play (e.g., making AI more appealing by framing it as a living being or tool, raising doubts about the use of AI by constructing borders and containers, or framing AI as a threat). Results of qualitative analysis should be understood as testable hypotheses that remain to be further explored and validated in experimental settings.
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Skrynnikova, Inna, and Tatiana Astafurova. "Figurative Framing Around Pandemic Discourse: From Metaphorical Wars on Coronavirus to Wars on Anti-Vaxxers." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 2. Jazykoznanije, no. 2 (May 2022): 136–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.2.11.
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The current paper deals with metaphorical framing of the COVID-19 pandemic and public response to it in the public and media discourse. Being one of the most dramatic global challenges of the third Millennium, the COVID-19 pandemic spurred transformation in social order, economic/business relationships and dramatic growth in social anxiety and tensions, mistrust and discriminatory measures. It has inevitably found its reflection in language and related discursive practices, which rely heavily on discourse metaphors. When being systematically employed, they affect people's views of events, situations and decisions they subsequently make. The present paper focuses primarily on the COVID-induced discourse changes that create new metaphorical framings and re-shape the familiar ones. The repertoire of elicited discourse metaphors framing the coronavirus discourse communicates the changing combating strategies referred to by the authors as globalist, nationalist and discriminatory. By drawing on specially compiled subcorpus of public and media texts, the paper reveals the conceptual and inferential structure of the concept of the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses the possible implications of activating various pandemic-related frames. The study stresses that the discursive construction of the coronavirus pandemic mirrors the dynamic nature of the pandemic itself as well as the measures to combat the insidious virus taken by national governments, the spread of misinformation and fake news as well as the split in the society and discrimination of certain groups (vaccine deniers/anti-vaxxers). Acknowledging the prevalence of military metaphors in the pandemic-related discourse, the authors claim that metaphorical framing serves as a crucial conceptual tool to communicate the gradual transition from war on COVID-19 to war of vaccines and ultimately to war on out-groups (vaccine deniers, anti-vaxxers).
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Droog, Ellen, Christian Burgers, and Kerk F. Kee. "How journalists and experts metaphorically frame emerging information technologies: The case of cyberinfrastructure for big data." Public Understanding of Science 29, no. 8 (2020): 819–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662520952542.
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Journalists and experts contribute to the creation of frames (frame-building) of innovations. However, little is known about the specific contribution of these different societal actors to the frame-building of emerging information technologies. This article focuses on a specific emerging information technology – cyberinfrastructure for big data. In particular, we investigated the role of metaphors in the frame-building of cyberinfrastructure during its early development, and contrast the metaphorical framing of cyberinfrastructure by journalists in a corpus of US news texts (Study 1) with the metaphorical framing of experts in a corpus of interviews (Study 2). Results show considerable differences between the frames by journalists and experts in the frame-building process. Journalists, to a great extent, employ their own frames in conceptualizing cyberinfrastructure rather than drawing on the frames used by experts. Future research should investigate the impact of these different metaphorical frames on audience members.
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Aslanov, Ivan, and Alexey Kotov. "‘Waves’ and ‘flashes’ of the pandemic: How COVID-19 metaphors in Russian media influence reasoning." World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies, no. 2 (June 1, 2022): 13–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.30547/worldofmedia.2.2022.2.
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In this study, we examined how metaphors used in the Russian media to describe the COVID-19 virus affect the audience’s judgment about the virus and their willingness to take a vaccine. We found that the two conventional metaphors used to describe the dynamics of the spread of the coronavirus (‘wave’ and ‘flash’) have a limited impact on the audience. In particular, by conducting an online experiment (N=737), we revealed that texts in which the virus and vaccination were described metaphorically (‘a new flash of coronavirus’ / ‘vaccination could extinguish the flames of a new flash of coronavirus’; ‘a new wave of coronavirus’ / ‘vaccination could curb the onslaught of a new wave of coronavirus’) reduced fear and anxiety at the thought of the coronavirus, but this effect appears only in vaccinated participants. Metaphorical framing, while impactful at the affective level, did not affect ‘rational’ reasoning, such as estimates of the likelihood of becoming vaccinated or estimates of the number of cases in the country. Also, subjects’ responses to most of the questions correlated positively with their confidence in official information about the coronavirus. The article interprets the results in the context of current work in the field of metaphorical framing and health communication.
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Tokareva, Svetlana. "Constructing the Image of Russia in Public and Political Discourse: From Semantic Description to Metaphorical Framing of Events." Logos et Praxis, no. 1 (March 2021): 36–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/lp.jvolsu.2021.1.5.
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The subject of the research is the processes of meaning-making in public and socio-political discourse, related to constructing and interpreting the image of Russia. The study deals with the specificity of semantic description of the country's image, with a particular focus on a thesaurus – a repository of data, knowledge and concepts an individual possesses in relation to a reflected fact of life. With the emergence of the cognitive approach the researchers' observations shift towards the confrontation of cultures and the resulting ideological opposition as prerequisites for constructing a particular image of Russia. In contrast to traditional linguistics, describing metaphorical images of Russia in terms of "semantic components" or "semantic fields", cognitive linguistics views constructing of the country's image as an effect of metaphorical framing which involves applying a number of coherent procedures: naming, categorization, framing, narrating. Under proliferation and competition of ideologies, it is not the frequency of a metaphorical model of the image of Russia that serves as an indicator of its productivity but rather its potential to produce new lexical units, frames or slots. The current study exemplifies the role of ideologemes and beliefs, reflecting different value systems, in constructing the auto- and hetero-image of Russia. The paper dwells on framing in the processes of activating society's emotional states "fostering" various Russia-related sentiments. While constructing the auto- and hetero-image of Russia, political actors compete fiercely for their right to frame ideas dominating the public and political discourse and ensuring their accepted meaning. Under the current ideological opposition, the instrumentarium of metaphorical framing and reframing can serve not only as a means of competitive practices but also a means of conflict resolution in discussing the ideological and political agendas associated with attitudes to Russia.
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Rojo López, Ana María, and María Ángeles Orts Llopis. "Metaphorical pattern analysis in financial texts: Framing the crisis in positive or negative metaphorical terms." Journal of Pragmatics 42, no. 12 (2010): 3300–3313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.06.001.
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Gorina, Tatyana. "Forming a Culture-Centric Image of Russia Through Metaphorical Framing." Logos et Praxis, no. 1 (March 2021): 58–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/lp.jvolsu.2021.1.7.
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The paper analyzes the opportunities of applying metaphorical framing in constructing a culturecentric image of Russia. Methodologically it relies on the conceptual metaphor theory elaborated by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson, according to which metaphor is a fundamental cognitive mechanism and enables us to understand and structure a more complex abstract target domain in terms of a more concrete familiar and embodied source domain. Metaphors perform a function of a framing tool: they establish frames and boundaries of human understanding of the world around; focus our attention on a posed problem; affect a recipient's attitude to phenomena, personalities, events foregrounding some the features of a target domain while overshadowing others. In this connection, by applying metaphorical framing one can single out certain aspects of the Russian reality making them salient, either appealing or repulsive, components of the Russian image. Metaphorical frames also enable to disguise some aspects of reality, thus constructing positive or negative attitudes to the country. The study emphasizes that, although the image of Russia within and outside the country is commonly constructed by referring to its political position, economic climate, its negative aspects do not seem to affect the attitudes to the Russian culture, and its development is seen as a process unfolding contrary to the current situation. The cultural component in the image of Russia is currently expressed vaguely, yet some research findings show a high potential for its application in constructing a positive image of Russia, including through metaphorical framing. Promoting a culturecentric image of Russia is possible through employing a range of metaphors such as Russia is a Spring, Russia is a Family and Russia is a Book. The paper concludes that metaphors tuned to the Russian culture will contribute to a change in the deeply rooted negative stereotypes about Russia, to constructing a modern, stable positive image of Russia comprehensible both within and outside the country. Metaphors are capable of stressing the country's openness to interacting with other peoples, its willingness and interest in cooperating with them.
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Volanschi, Alexandra, and Natalie Kübler. "The impact of metaphorical framing on term creation in biology." Terminology 17, no. 2 (2011): 198–223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/term.17.2.02vol.
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The present paper is an in-depth study of the lexical units transferred by metaphorical extension from general English to the field of biology, based on the analysis of a 20 million word corpus of scientific articles. Terminological metaphors are analysed both as keys to cognitive processes involved in scientific activity and as linguistic units. We examine the role metaphors play in the evolution of the discipline, as well as the process by which they are introduced, reinforced by common usage, and ultimately lexicalized. The metaphorical term candidates extracted from the corpus are analysed as representing different stages in a diachronic process of lexicalization, or demetaphorising. They are classified according to the perceptual basis (similarity of shape, function or position) or to the ‘root’ conceptual metaphors on which they are built.
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Jurgaitis, Nedas. "A Comparative Study of Braking Concept in Lithuanian and German Economic Discourse." Vārds un tā pētīšanas aspekti: rakstu krājums = The Word: Aspects of Research: conference proceedings, no. 28 (November 25, 2024): 148–57. https://doi.org/10.37384/vtpa.2024.28.148.
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This article deals with braking metaphors in Lithuanian and German economic discourse. The aim of the study is to show and compare the metaphorical framing of the term BRAKING in Lithuanian and German economic discourse, taking into account linguistic and contextual differences. The analysis of media texts shows a contradictory picture in which the BRAKING concept frequently appears. Braking metaphors originating from various source domains are used to communicate economic recessions. The subject of this study is metaphorical expressions that make up the linguistic expression of the BRAKING concept in German and Lithuanian media. The study aims to compare conceptual metaphors in Lithuanian and German public discourse so that the conceptualisation of the phenomenon discussed in both linguistic communities can be partially revealed. It can be assumed that part of the linguistic expression are deliberate metaphors, i.e. opinion makers. Therefore, metaphors are considered not only in the classical metaphor model but also in the three-dimensional metaphor model. A comparative analysis of economic discourse was carried out, ranging from short economic news items to stock market reports, interviews with politicians, economists and government leaders to comprehensive economic analyses. The results of the comparative study shed light on how the BRAKING concept is perceived in both discourses. The conclusions show that the BRAKING concept is related to the global concept of economics, which is structured by discourse metaphors – relatively stable metaphorical mappings that function as a central framing device within a particular discourse over a period of time. Metaphorical expressions framing the BRAKING concept in both Lithuanian and German help to understand a wide range of economic phenomena, followed by a polarisation of economic discourse in both languages.
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Heggestad, Jon. "Are You My Progeny?: Academic Labor as Reproduction." Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 56, no. 1 (2023): 83–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mml.2023.a928187.
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Abstract: There is a long discursive history that addresses academic labor within a metaphorical framework of reproductive labor. This trend has seen a viral rebirth on social media platforms as countless posts have extended this connection, fleshing out the ways in which these forms of labor might equate to or inform one another. Looking to a series of recent online posts, this brief essay examines what results from the continuation of this metaphorical framing.
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Kramar, Natalie. "Construction of Agency within Climate Change Framing in Media Discourse: a Corpus-Based Study." Respectus Philologicus, no. 43 (48) (April 17, 2023): 36–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/respectus.2023.43.48.106.
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The study addresses the role of linguistic agency in framing climate change in media discourse based on the corpus of 75 articles from leading British and American news outlets. We have used corpus manager AntConc to analyse the linguistic context of the phrase climate change and alternative terms (climate crisis, climate emergency, etc.) when positioned as an agent vs a recipient of the process. Both metaphorical and non-metaphorical framing patterns have been identified, with the discussion of their broad social implications. We have revealed that climate change is routinely represented as a contributor towards negative situations of different kinds but rarely as a direct and exclusive cause. This may divert the readership’s attention from the urgency of the problem, as its salience is not underscored enough. The most important finding is that climate change is frequently associated with humanlike agency, presented as an evil-doer or an enemy that must be fought. We argue that this framing is problematic as it backgrounds humans’ responsibility for causing and exacerbating climate change.
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Pinelli, Erica. "The role of metaphor and metonymy in framing terrorism." Metaphor and the Social World 6, no. 1 (2016): 134–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/msw.6.1.06pin.
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In this paper I analyze the role of metaphor and metonymy in framing conflict events. In particular, when framing a terrorist attack in media discourse these two linguistic elements are crucial for the interpretation of the event. The data from two Russian newspapers, the “Novaja Gazeta” and the “Rossijskaja Gazeta”, show how metaphorical and metonymical processes are used to promote a particular interpretation and modify the structure of the event itself.
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Huang, Enci, and Qijun Song. "Metaphorical Framing in Political Translation: Translating Xi Jinping’s Ecological Progress." transLogos Translation Studies Journal 7/1, no. 7/1 (2024): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/translogos.62.
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Robins, Shani, and Richard E. Mayer. "The Metaphor Framing Effect: Metaphorical Reasoning About Text-Based Dilemmas." Discourse Processes 30, no. 1 (2000): 57–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15326950dp3001_03.
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Mujagić, Mersina, and Alma Pehlivanović. "Metaphorical framing of children’s digital media addiction in media discourse." Post Scriptum 12, no. 13 (2023): 175–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.52580/issn.2232-8556.2023.12.13.175.
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The paper investigates figurative construal of children’s excessive use of electronic devices in articles that tackle the issues of children’s media addiction, as well as concentration and attention span, which are considered to be affected by this excessive use of technology. In giving their opinion on the topic, authors of articles resort to the use conceptual metaphor – a cognitive device where more abstract concept (a target domain) is being understood through the use of another, more concrete concept (a source domain). Authentic language data reveal the use of metaphorical linguistic expressions such as ‘digital overdose’ and ‘electronic cocaine’, which send a disturbing message that children are ‘overdosing’. This detailed analysis aims to investigate: (a) the types of metaphor (according to Steen’s 2010 three-dimensional model of metaphor analysis) in articles on children’s media addiction; (b) whether ADDICTION metaphors are dominant and deliberate; (c) their communicative function – the rhetorical function intended by the authors, as well as their rhetorical effects on recipients (notably, parents);(d) the implications of their combination with other metaphors within a sentence or a paragraph; (e) the possibility of resorting to alternative metaphor use.
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Taylor, Charlotte. "Metaphors of migration over time." Discourse & Society 32, no. 4 (2021): 463–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926521992156.
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This paper aims to cast light on contemporary migration rhetoric by integrating historical discourse analysis. I focus on continuity and change in conventionalised metaphorical framings of emigration and immigration in the UK-based Times newspaper from 1800 to 2018. The findings show that some metaphors persist throughout the 200-year time period (liquid, object), some are more recent in conventionalised form (animals, invader, weight) while others dropped out of conventionalised use before returning (commodity, guest). Furthermore, we see that the spread of metaphor use goes beyond correlation with migrant naming choices with both emigrants and immigrants occupying similar metaphorical frames historically. However, the analysis also shows that continuity in metaphor use cannot be assumed to correspond to stasis in framing and evaluation as the liquid metaphor is shown to have been more favourable in the past. A dominant frame throughout the period is migrants as an economic resource and the evaluation is determined by the speaker’s perception of control of this resource.
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Chen, Yanling. "The Use of Metaphors in Online Contexts: A Rhetorical Analysis of Global Climate Change Discourse." Journal of Higher Education Research 5, no. 5 (2024): 410. https://doi.org/10.32629/jher.v5i5.3041.
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Metaphors are a powerful rhetorical device that shape how individuals understand complex issues, including global climate change. In the digital age, online platforms have become a major arena for climate discourse, where metaphors play a critical role in framing public perception and motivating action. This paper analyzes the use of metaphors in online discussions of global climate change, exploring how different metaphorical framings influence the rhetorical strategies employed in these conversations. By examining various social media posts, blogs, and news articles, this study aims to understand how metaphors contribute to the larger discourse on climate change and their role in cultural and political dynamics.
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Özçalışkan, Şeyda. "Typological variation in encoding the manner, path, and ground components of a metaphorical motion event." Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 2 (December 31, 2004): 73–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/arcl.2.03ozc.
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The paper compares two typologically distinct languages with regard to their lexicalization patterns in encoding metaphorical motion events: (1) verb-framed (V-language, represented by Turkish), in which the preferred pattern for framing motion events is the use of a path verb with an optional manner adjunct (e.g.,enter running), and (2) satellite-framed (S-language, represented by English), in which path is lexicalized in an element associated with the verb, leaving the verb free to encode manner (e.g.,run in). The paper focuses on typological differences in encoding the manner, path, and ground components of metaphorical motion events, using data from novels written originally in English or Turkish, and further extends the applicability of the typological dichotomy to the metaphorical uses of the lexicon.
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Reali, Florencia, and Lucien Avellaneda. "Feminists are warriors: Framing effects of war metaphors." Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies, no. 43(4) (2023): 103–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.15290/cr.2023.43.4.06.
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Metaphors influence general attitudes towards political and social ideas (Otieno et al. 2016). In particular, war metaphors are very common in political discourse. Their framing effects, however, depend on the context in which war metaphors are used, rendering positive or negative outcomes (Flusberg et al. 2018; Thibodeau 2018). Reali (2021) explored metaphorical framing of feminism and women in feminism-related news in online media in Spanish, finding that war metaphors depicting women as warriors fighting for their rights were the most prevalent ones. Here, we use an experimental paradigm to explore whether the use of war metaphors affects the perception of issues defended by the feminist movements. Spanish-speaking participants were exposed to a vignette describing a hypothetical case of elective abortion. Two variables were manipulated in a 2X2 between-subjects design: 1.the use of warfare framing (war metaphors/neutral frames), and 2.the use of inclusive language in Spanish (gender inclusive/gender neutral language). Additionally, participants’ sociodemographic data were collected. A series of regression analyses showed an effect of metaphorical framing on the perception of the right to decide, perception of the partner’s right to opine, and the perception of the main character’s coldness when controlling for sociodemographic variables. The use of inclusive language had little effect on perception. Consistent with previous findings, sociodemographic factors strongly affected perception: men, and conservative and religious participants rated the right to decide lower, and character’s coldness as higher.
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Ananieva, Nika. "The DIVIDED SELF metaphor and conceptualizations of the internal conflict in suicide notes." 26, no. 26 (August 31, 2023): 9–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.26565/2218-2926-2023-26-01.
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This paper presents DIVIDED SELF metaphor analysis conducted drawing from the discourse of suicidal notes. The suicide notes represent a distinct genre because of its typical rhetorical structure and communicative purpose. In particular, the internal conflict experienced by the authors of suicidal notes makes this material suitable for an analysis of the metaphorical conceptualization of one’s own DIVIDED SELF. The research aims at modeling the conceptualization of one’s own conflicting SELF by the authors of the suicide notes and proposing approach to the metaphorical conceptualizations of the DIVIDED SELF as metaphtonymy, as well as describing their potential for representing the individual’s internal conflict. First, the cognitive framing of the inner SELF of the authors, divided into the instances of the Subject and the Self, was investigated. Second, in order to analyze metaphtonymic connections between the individual’s inner conceptualizations, the agentivity of the inner SELF conceptualizations was compared. Third, a metaphtonymic configuration of SELF conceptualizations was modeled and the potential of metaphorical framing of extreme psychological states through the metaphthonymic representation of the SELF described. The material of the study consisted of a corpus with a total size of 164,483 lexical units (the CEASE corpus combined with a self-assembled corpus of suicide notes). As demonstrated by the analysis, the aspect of the Self mainly acts as a fragmentation of the author in the DIVIDED SELF metaphor. That is, the study allowed to model metaphorical conceptualizations metaphtonymically and structure the stages of the formation of metaphtonymy through the visual illustrations.
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Marinić, Ivana, and Ivana Moritz. "Teacher and CEO Job Ads: Metaphor and Framing Analysis." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 15, no. 5 (2025): 1390–98. https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1505.03.
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According to the Critical Discourse Analysis, language use reflects the power dynamics in various social circumstances. Also, underlying metaphors in the discourse reveal the similarities and differences between the ideas, attitudes, and values of different groups and individuals (Cameron et al., 2009). In this paper, we compare job ads for teachers and CEOs, looking for metaphors and metaphorical frames used to describe perfect candidates. Before that, we provide an analysis of similarities between these two professions and a review of literature discussing the metaphor research on teachers and managers. A couple of interesting conclusions arise. First, there are differences in the self-assumed metaphorical identity of teachers and the metaphors students and works of literature use to describe them. Secondly, in the public discourse, managers’ identity is set in the war metaphor frame, whereas in the leadership theories, they are described either as charismatic or transformational leaders (Storey, 2004a). Finally, our research shows that job ads for CEOs portray the ideal candidates within the charismatic leader frame, leaving out the WAR frame, whereas teacher ads leave out many metaphors that constitute the identity of successful and passionate teachers. This poses the question of why ‘employer branding’ (Backhaus & Tikoo, 2004, p. 501) is not applied to the educational setting and whether this points to the status of these two professions in society.
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Bogetić, Ksenija. "Discursive metaphorical frames in newspaper texts on language change." Metaphor and the Social World 9, no. 1 (2019): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/msw.17013.bog.
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Abstract The concept of ‘metaphorical framing’ is currently witnessing renewed interest in metaphor research, but for discourse-oriented work it remains a problematic analytical tool given the variety of senses it has been employed with. The present paper considers an approach to metaphorical frames in discourse, by proposing the notion of discursive metaphorical frames to capture the complex, systematic metaphorical representations prominent across discourse. The perspective follows the direction of recent integrated approaches to metaphor, frames and discourse (e.g., Burgers et al., 2016; Cameron et al., 2009; Semino et al., 2016) and is proposed as particularly suited to studying public discourses, as ideologically laden, multi-textual and multi-voiced. The approach is illustrated through an analysis of metaphorical representations of language in Serbian and British newspapers. The analysis reveals the deeper social ideologies underlying the newspaper discussions on language in Serbia and Great Britain, including similarities as well as notable differences, pointing to the diverse ideological processes shaping contemporary media metadiscourses. The results are also discussed in relation to the adopted approach, to frames of presentation, (sub)domain representations and the dynamics of metaphor use in public discourse.
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Reijnierse, W. Gudrun, Christian Burgers, Tina Krennmayr, and Gerard J. Steen. "How viruses and beasts affect our opinions (or not)." Metaphor and the Social World 5, no. 2 (2015): 245–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/msw.5.2.04rei.
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Based on the assumption that extended metaphor may constitute a case of deliberate metaphor and therefore has the potential to influence people’s opinions, this paper investigates whether extending a metaphorical frame in a text leads people to perceive policy measures that are in line with that frame as more effective for solving a crime problem than other policy measures. The metaphorical frames ‘Crime is a virus’ and ‘Crime is a beast’ were extended in one experiment each via a series of additional conventional metaphorical expressions having crime as the target domain and beasts/viruses as the source domain. Participants (N = 354, Experiment 1; N = 361, Experiment 2) were randomly assigned to one of five experimental conditions with increasing numbers of sentences containing metaphorical expressions, and rated the effectiveness of a set of policy measures to solve the crime problem described in the text. The data yield limited support for our hypothesis. When controlling for political affiliation, the ratings for frame-consistent measures trended in the hypothesised direction in Experiment 2. Experiment 1 yielded a trend for frame-inconsistent measures. These results suggest that metaphorical framing effects may be more subtle than has been assumed.
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Esbrí-Blasco, Montserrat. "Metaphorical conceptualization of AI in digital discourse." methaodos.revista de ciencias sociales 12, no. 2 (2024): m241202a07. http://dx.doi.org/10.17502/mrcs.v12i2.824.
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This study investigates the conceptual metaphors employed to characterize Artificial Intelligence (AI) within online public discourse. By using a cognitive semantic approach, this investigation aims to uncover how metaphors shape social perceptions of AI, revealing the cognitive mechanisms involved in making sense of this rapidly evolving technology. An adapted version of the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP) has been combined with semantic frames to analyze the metaphorical mappings between the source and target frames, offering a more precise examination of the metaphors' conceptual structure. The analysis reveals a spectrum of metaphors portraying AI both as a beneficial partner and a potential threat, reflecting diverse attitudes and concerns about its integration into society. By focusing on the frame level, this study provides a fine-grained understanding of how different aspects of AI are construed through familiar conceptual frames. The findings contribute to the field of Cognitive Semantics and offer valuable insights for AI developers, educators, and communicators, emphasizing the importance of metaphors in framing society’s understanding of emerging technologies.
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Degani, Marta. "From the light of truth to the dark alleys of tyranny." Metaphor and the Social World 8, no. 2 (2018): 157–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/msw.16025.deg.
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Abstract The present study aims at exploring the evocative power of metaphor in a number of remarkable American political speeches. The investigation concentrates on the metaphorical framing of political issues in terms of light and darkness. The analysis is carried out on a corpus consisting of the top 100 political speeches in the twentieth century according to a ranking given by American rhetoricians in a national survey (http://www. news.wisc.edu/misc/speeches). Overall, the study shows how the metaphorical uses of the evocative concepts of light and darkness have facilitated the communication of central political ideas, values and beliefs in twentieth century American political rhetoric.
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Yang, Xueke. "A Framing Metaphorical Analysis of Chinas National Images --Based on the 2021 Economic News Reports on China of The Economist." Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media 35, no. 1 (2024): 7–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/35/20232016.
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National image is an important part of Chinas soft power. The Economist uses a large number of metaphorical frames that relate to all aspects of Chinas development. Through these metaphorical frames, The Economist endows reports with its concepts and attitudes towards China, and these metaphorical frames also influence readers in an invisible way. This thesis uses the theory of framing and conceptual metaphor to analyze about 110 economic reports on China in The Economist in 2021. Specifically, three kinds of framing metaphors are discussed. They are war metaphors, sport metaphors, and journey metaphors. By analyzing the national images constructed by metaphors in each frame, the thesis finds that the journal sees China as a rising power, with its rising international status, rapid economic growth, world-leading technology and active participation in global governance, which constructs a positive image of China as a developing and progressive country. However, due to the inherent ideological bias of the West, the report maliciously smears Chinas national image, especially in terms of regime and human power. In addition, it also believes that China restricts freedom of speech and its environmental pollution is serious. In conclusion, The Economist has constructed an overall negative national image of China, which has exerted profound international influence. In the context of profound changes in the international communication environment, the author hopes that this thesis can provide some enlightenment for improving Chinas international discourse power.
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Boeynaems, Amber, Christian Burgers, Elly A. Konijn, and Gerard J. Steen. "The Effects of Metaphorical Framing on Political Persuasion: A Systematic Literature Review." Metaphor and Symbol 32, no. 2 (2017): 118–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2017.1297623.
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Zeng, Winnie Huiheng, and Kathleen Ahrens. "Corpus-Based Metaphorical Framing Analysis: WAR Metaphors in Hong Kong Public Discourse." Metaphor and Symbol 38, no. 3 (2023): 254–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2022.2158088.
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Reali, Florencia, and Catalina Arciniegas. "Metaphorical conceptualization of emotion in Spanish." Metaphor and the Social World 5, no. 1 (2015): 20–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/msw.5.1.02rea.
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Over the last two decades, accumulating work in cognitive science and cognitive linguistics has provided evidence that language shapes thought. Conceptual metaphor theory proposes that the conceptual structure of emotions emerges through metaphorization from concrete concepts such as spatial orientation and physical containment. Primary metaphors for emotions have been described in a wide range of languages. Here we show, in Study 1, the results of a corpus analysis revealing that certain metaphors such as EMOTIONS ARE FLUIDS and EMOTIONS ARE BOUNDED SPACEs are quite natural in Spanish. Moreover, the corpus data reveal that the bounded space source domain is more frequently mapped onto negative emotions. In Study 2, we consider the question of whether the instantiation of metaphorical framing influences the way we think about emotions. A questionnaire experiment was conducted to explore this question, focusing on the Spanish case of locura (‘madness’). Our results show that when madness was framed as a fluid filling a container (the body), people tended to rate symptoms as less enduring and as more likely to be caused by social and environmental factors, compared with when it was framed as a place in space. Results are discussed in the light of conceptual metaphor theory.
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Benczes, Réka, and Lilla Petronella Szabó. "Brussels – boss, bully or the big brother?" Jezikoslovlje 21, no. 3 (2020): 345–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.29162/jez.2020.11.
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According to political realism, conflict is an immanent feature of world politics (Morgenthau 1948/1973). Drawing on this basic premise, it can be expected that the conflict frame is routinely exploited by politicians to explain and justify their foreign policy (Musolff 2016). Conflict is especially prevalent in populist narratives, where the “pure people” are juxtaposed with the “corrupt elite” (Mudde 2004). Accordingly, we hypothesized that the current Hungarian populist government would also frame its turbulent relationship with the EU by metaphorically conceptualizing it as a violent conflict. Drawing on a discourse dynamics approach to metaphor identification (Cameron et al. 2009; 2010), we analysed the metaphorical framing of the term Brüsszel (‘Brussels’) found in articles published on official government websites between 2015 and 2017. Our results indicate that explicit manifestation of the conflict frame in the form of violent conflict (such as a military operation) is less prevalent in contemporary government rhetoric, as opposed to the eu as person frame. This latter conceptualization, however, is manifested by metaphorical scenarios that evoke conflictual relations with varying degrees (and thus feed into populist narratives) by making sense of the EU as an authority figure, a partner in a joint venture, a bully, and an opponent in a battle.
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Fan, Kaifang, and Jingyue Shi. "Discourse Strategy Analysis on English Translation of Modern Chinese Essays Based on Framing Theory." English Language and Literature Studies 14, no. 4 (2024): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v14n4p72.
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The English translation of modern Chinese essays provides a platform for the world to showcase the Chinese spirit. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct in-depth research on the underlying discourse strategies of the English translation of modern Chinese essays. Based on the framing theory proposed by Lakoff, this study adopts a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze surface frames and deep frames of the English translation of modern Chinese essays. Analyses show that among a total of 1074 metaphorical words, there exist four main metaphorical surface frames: people frame, nature frame, journey frame and object frame. These surface frames activate four deep frames: the pursuit of personal qualities, nostalgia for hometown and family, criticism of social reality and the struggle for the country. This study provides a new application perspective and promotes future research on the English translation of modern Chinese essays, and could help readers to interpret the main values embodied in Selected Modern Chinese Essays 1, enhancing their understanding and appreciation of these literary works.
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Islentyeva, Anna. "On the Front Line in the Fight against the Virus: Conceptual Framing and War Patterns in Political Discourse." Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 8, no. 1 (2020): 157–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2020-0010.
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AbstractIn light of the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, military linguistic patterns and framings now seem to be omnipresent in our daily discourses. Media and political discourses play a key role in conceptualising the pandemic, its impact, and the measures taken to respond to it in terms of war. This study represents a comparative discourse analysis of a selection of official statements and speeches delivered by four world leaders whose countries have been severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, US President Donald Trump, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The linguistic analysis attempts to identify the differences and similarities in the political framing of the pandemic and these governments’ responses to it. A particular focus is placed on the range of metaphorical patterns that foreground the warlike and aggressive nature of these measures.
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Fehn, Angela. "The Effects of Metaphorical Framing in CEOs’ Communication on Stakeholders’ Evaluations of Firms." Academy of Management Proceedings 2016, no. 1 (2016): 17098. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2016.17098abstract.
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Yang, Chao-Ming. "Influence of Message Framing and Product Type of Metaphorical Ads on Advertising Preference." Psychology and Behavioral Sciences 4, no. 2 (2015): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.11648/j.pbs.20150402.17.
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王, 淑琳. "An Analysis of the Metaphorical Framing and China’s Image in Poverty Alleviation Discourse." Modern Linguistics 12, no. 10 (2024): 672–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.12677/ml.2024.1210941.
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Thibodeau, Paul H., and Stephen J. Flusberg. "Metaphorical Accounting: How Framing the Federal Budget Like a Household's Affects Voting Intentions." Cognitive Science 41 (January 31, 2017): 1168–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12475.
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