ABSTRACT This research investigates the cross-linguistic exploitations of Lakoff’s “STRICT FATHER” and “NURTURING PARENT” frames. The British, American, Spanish, and French languages show significant variations of meaning of the metaphorical expression “Mother Earth/Nature” used in press articles discussing climate change. The shift from conceptual metaphor theory to metaphor scenarios operated in this research reveals major adjustments to Lakoff’s findings with, notably, the identification of a “STRICT MOTHER” in our corpus. The cross-linguistic perspective also emphasizes socio-cultural influence on the metaphorical interpretation and the related metaphorical frames. For instance, our results highlight linguistic evidences of language-specific and culture-specific characterizations of the “MOTHER”. The reliance on “RELIGION” metaphors in climate change discourses has been previously documented by researchers. However, we demonstrate that the reliance on myths has a significant role to play in the characterization of the “MOTHER” in different languages. The association between the myths and the frames related to the figure of the “MOTHER” also influences the understanding of the topic of climate change fulfilling different argumentative stances.

中文翻译：

---

隐喻情景如何揭示意义的社会文化和语言变化：“养父母”和“严格父亲”框架的跨语言视角

摘要 本研究调查了 Lakoff 的“严格的父亲”和“养育父母”框架的跨语言开发。在讨论气候变化的新闻文章中使用的隐喻表达“地球/自然”的含义在英国、美国、西班牙和法国语言中表现出显着差异。本研究中从概念隐喻理论到隐喻情景的转变揭示了对 Lakoff 研究结果的重大调整，特别是在我们的语料库中确定了“严格的母亲”。跨语言视角还强调社会文化对隐喻解释和相关隐喻框架的影响。例如，我们的结果突出了“母亲”的语言特定和文化特定特征的语言证据。研究人员先前已经记录了气候变化话语中对“宗教”隐喻的依赖。然而，我们证明了对神话的依赖在不同语言中对“母亲”的表征中起着重要作用。神话与“母亲”形象相关的框架之间的关联也影响了对气候变化主题的理解，实现了不同的争论立场。