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Metaphor signalling constructions in discourse related to the experience of depersonalization/derealization Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Jane Dilkes
In this study a systematic analysis of signaled metaphor is undertaken in naturally occurring discourse from an online forum relating to the experience of depersonalization/derealization, which has...
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The Ups and Downs of Black and White: Do Sensorimotor Metaphors Reflect an Evolved Perceptual Interface? Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Tina O. Zhu, Peiyao Chen, Frank H. Durgin
The Implicit Association Test (IAT) was used to measure population levels of conceptual alignment among two polar sensory metaphors and clusters of concepts to which they are commonly applied. A to...
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Metaphorical Mapping and Cultural Significance in Chinese Death-Related Idiomatic Expressions Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Yi-Zhong Chen, Te-Hsin Liu
This study examined the metaphorical expressions of death in Chinese quadrisyllabic idioms. Specifically, the research investigated the cultural connotations and implications conveyed through death...
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“Living with HIV” – Changes in HIV and AIDS Metaphors in South African Educational Policy Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Johanita Kirsten, Jacques McDermid Heyns
Health metaphors are commonly used in a variety of contexts. While war metaphors are common in medicine, there are also other conceptualizations and other metaphors employed in different contexts. ...
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Is That a Genuine Smile? Emoji-Based Sarcasm Interpretation Across the Lifespan Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Jing Cui, Herbert L. Colston, Guiying Jiang
Emoji appear to be an important cue to judge whether a statement is sarcastic in computer-mediated communication. In this study, we investigated whether the smiling emoji, an indicator of sarcastic...
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Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Richard J. Gerrig
Published in Metaphor and Symbol (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2024)
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Drawing as a Tool in Metaphor-Led Discourse Analysis Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Charles Denroche
The use of words to label concepts is a weak point in CMT but one which is little discussed. This article considers the relative merits of image and writing as semiotic modes for identifying concep...
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The Norwegian Dugnad in Times of COVID-19 Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Susan Nacey
On 12 March 2020, the Norwegian government instigated measures to limit the spread of COVID-19, the most drastic policies of any Norwegian government in peacetime. A particularly Norwegian metaphor...
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Visual Metaphors and Aesthetics: A Formalist Theory of Metaphor Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Geoffrey Ventalon
Published in Metaphor and Symbol (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Super Figures: Poetry, Picture Poetry, and Art in the Service of Human Connection Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Herbert L. Colston, Carina Rasse
Published in Metaphor and Symbol (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Translating Motion Events Across Physical and Metaphorical Spaces in Structurally Similar Versus Structurally Different Languages Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Wojciech Lewandowski, Şeyda Özçalışkan
The expression of physical motion (the spider crawls across the net) and metaphorical motion (the fear crawls across her heart) shows strong inter-typological differences between language types (Ge...
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Identifying and Interpreting Visual and Multimodal Metaphor in Commercials and Feature Films Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Charles Forceville
Research on metaphor has over the past decades increasingly been extended to its visual and multimodal varieties. While analysts of verbal metaphors are helped by the fact that languages have gramm...
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The Influence of Metaphorical Framing on Emotions and Reasoning About the COVID-19 Pandemic Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 India M. S. Roberts, Marianna M. Bolognesi
Metaphors can provide a conceptual framework for understanding complex topics and as such, they have frequently been used in COVID-19 discourse. As previous research indicates that conceptual metap...
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Assessing Attitudes Indirectly Through Conceptual Metaphors of Size and Distance in an Interactive Software Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Josef Kundrát, Karel Rečka, Karel Paulík, František Baumgartner, Marek Malůš, Lenka Skanderová, Tomáš Fabián, Jan Platoš, Martina Litschmannová, Adéla Vrtková, Tereza Benešová
Traditional methods of measuring attitudes usually consist of expressing the degree of agreement with a series of statements. In this paper, we test a new method to express attitudes through intera...
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Types of Resistance to Metaphor Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Lotte van Poppel, Roosmaryn Pilgram
The appropriateness and persuasiveness of using metaphors has become subject of debate in both the academic and the public arena. Recent studies have shown that particular metaphors give rise to re...
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Early Birds Can Fly: Awakening the Literal Meaning of Conventional Metaphors Further Downstream Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Laura Pissani, Roberto G. de Almeida
Conventional metaphors such as early bird are interpreted rather fast and efficiently. This is so because they might be stored as lexicalized, non-compositional expressions. In a previous study, em...
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Killer, Thief or Companion? A Corpus-Based Study of Dementia Metaphors in UK Tabloids Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Gavin Brookes
ABSTRACT This article examines the metaphors that are used to represent dementia in British tabloid newspapers over a ten-year period (2010–2019). The analysis takes a corpus-based approach to metaphor identification and analysis, utilizing in particular the corpus linguistic technique of collocation analysis. Metaphors are considered in terms of the ‘targets’ they frame, which include the following
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Code Red for Humanity: Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Noncommercial Advertisements on Environmental Awareness and Activism Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Laura Hidalgo-Downing, Niamh A. O’Dowd
ABSTRACT Concern for global warming, climate change and pollution has grown in recent years, with countries across the world facing natural disasters on unprecedented scales. The communication of environmental protection is therefore a necessary area of enquiry, especially from a Conceptual Metaphor Theory perspective. The present article explores (1) how the themes of global warming, climate change
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Flashbacks in Film: A Cognitive and Multimodal Analysis Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Lorena Bort-Mir
Published in Metaphor and Symbol (Vol. 38, No. 3, 2023)
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Metaphorical Humor in Satirical News Shows: A Content Analysis Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Ellen Droog, Christian Burgers
ABSTRACT Satirical news is often characterized as a hybrid genre that consists of three important communicative functions: it is (1) humoristic, (2) informative, and (3) evaluative. The Humoristic Metaphors in Satirical News (HMSN) typology demonstrates that metaphors can be utilized by satirists to express this hybridity by consisting of a combination of one or more of satire’s core communicative
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On Poetry and the Science(s) of Meaning Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Albert N. Katz, Carina Rasse, Herbert L. Colston
Published in Metaphor and Symbol (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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Poet and Psychologist: A Conversation Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Keith J. Holyoak
ABSTRACT I consider poetry composition from both the “inside” view of a poet and the “outside” view of a cognitive psychologist. From the perspective of a psychologist, I review behavioral and neural studies of the reception and generation of poetry, with emphasis on metaphor and symbolism. Taking the perspective of a poet, I discuss how the seeds for a poem may arise. Finally, I consider the prospects
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Cognitive Factors Related to Metaphor Goodness in Poetic and Non-literary Metaphor Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 J. Nick Reid, Hamad Al-Azary, Albert N. Katz
ABSTRACT In this paper we examine the effect of two cognitive variables, Semantic Neighborhood Density and Interpretive Diversity, in first, distinguishing between literary (poetic) and nonliterary metaphor, and second, in determining what makes for a good metaphor. Analyses of items taken from a widely used set ofmetaphor norms indicated that while literary and nonliterary metaphor did not differ
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An Individual-Differences Approach to Poetic Metaphor: Impact of Aptness and Familiarity Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Dušan Stamenković, Katarina Milenković, Nicholas Ichien, Keith J. Holyoak
ABSTRACT Using poetic metaphors in the Serbian language, we identified systematic variations in the impact of fluid and crystalized intelligence on comprehension of metaphors that varied in rated aptness and familiarity. Overall, comprehension scores were higher for metaphors that were high rather than low in aptness, and high rather than low in familiarity. A measure of crystalized intelligence was
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The Storm Sank My Boat and My Dreams: The Zeugma as a Breach of Iconicity Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Roi Tartakovsky, Yeshayahu Shen
ABSTRACT Zeugma (“The storm sank my boat and my dreams”) is a well-recognized figure of speech whose mechanism of operation is less well understood. We suggest treating zeugma as a breach of syntactic iconicity: the syntactic form of the coordinative construction statement implies an equivalence or semantic proximity between the two objects of the verb (boat and dreams), while the objects supplied
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A Cognitive Investigation into the Love-life Relationship Expressed in Poetry Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Van-Hoa Phan, Quynh-Thu Ho-Trinh
ABSTRACT This paper aims to uncover the underlying metaphorical expressions regarding the importance of love to human life in English and Vietnamese poetry based on Conceptual Metaphor Theory, which suggests that metaphor is based on human thought as well as on language. For metaphor identification, the authors use a five-step procedure based on Pragglejaz Group’s method for metaphorical expressions
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Metaphors We Love By: The Shift from Animal to Fruit Metaphors in Classical Arabic Ghazal Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Sami Chatti
ABSTRACT Classical Arabic poetry is replete with animal and fruit metaphors commonly used for endearment purposes. The comparative analysis of love metaphors in classical ghazal shows, however, a shift in the poetics of love from the use of animal metaphors in Badi poetry to the occurrence of fruit imagery in Bedouin ghazal. Based on a selection of classical Arabic love poetry, the paper traces the
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Why Poetry?: Semiotic Scaffolding & the Poetic Architecture of Cognition Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Jake Young
ABSTRACT Poetry is a process. While people typically refer to poems as textual objects, our experience of poetry is inherently embodied and enacted, meaning that we experience poems as events that we contextualize as gestalt representations. We experience metaphors, too, as processes, which arise from experiential gestalts, that extend gestalt structures and lay the conceptual foundation for our experience
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Metaphors and Related Expressions in Older Adults in the Field of Trauma and Stress-related Disorders: A Scoping Review Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Sandra Rossi, Andreas Maercker, Eva Heim
ABSTRACT A scoping review was conducted to explore the metaphors and related expressions older adults use to describe extremely stressful events that may lead to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Complex PTSD (CPTSD), Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD), or Adjustment Disorder (AjD). Relevant databases from psychology, gerontology, and related fields were searched. In addition, relevant references
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Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (PIMS): The Case of Spatial and Abstract Relations Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Marlene Johansson Falck, Lacey Okonski
ABSTRACT This article tackles the tricky problem of identifying metaphors in language that includes prepositions. We demonstrate how the Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (PIMS) reflected and evoked by linguistic expressions in discourse, Johansson Falck & Okonski, accepted) can be used to identify metaphorical relations reflected in language. The scenes evoked correspond to conceptualizations
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‘The Genome Is the Brain of the Cell!’ How Japanese English Learners Mediate Understanding of Academic Content through Metaphor Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Dennis Lindenberg
ABSTRACT This study investigates metaphor in its role to mediate concepts in academic textbooks and promote content understanding in the English-medium instruction (EMI) context. Of particular interest is how the language of the discourse affected and possibly hindered metaphor comprehension. Drawing on the theoretical insights found in sociocultural theory and cognitive linguistics, a stance was assumed
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Embodied Metaphor Processing: A Study of the Priming Impact of Congruent and Opposite Gestural Representations of Metaphor Schema on Metaphor Comprehension Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Omid Khatin-Zadeh
ABSTRACT This study examined the performances of three groups of participants in interpreting metaphors in three different conditions: congruent gesture-prime conditions, opposite gesture-prime conditions, and no-prime conditions. In congruent gesture-prime conditions, each metaphor was preceded by the congruent gestural representation of metaphor schema. In opposite gesture-prime conditions, each
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Individual Differences in Verbal Irony Use: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Psycholinguistic Studies Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Piotr Kałowski, Maria Zajączkowska, Katarzyna Branowska, Anna Olechowska, Aleksandra Siemieniuk, Ewa Dryll, Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak
ABSTRACT We carried out a systematic review of psycholinguistic, empirical, quantitative studies on verbal irony use and individual differences (i.e. psychological, not demographic, traits that significantly differentiate individuals). Out of 5,967 publications screened, 29, comprising 35 studies in total, were included. Following a qualitative content analysis, six thematic clusters were identified
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Like a Virus. Similes for a Pandemic Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 Maria-Josep Cuenca, Manuela Romano
ABSTRACT The Covid-19 pandemic has had a great impact on the life of every inhabitant of the planet. During 2020 and 2021 a significant amount of work on how the pandemic is being conceptualized and communicated has been done. Most work has focused on the role of metaphor in the construal of specific cognitive frames. In this paper, we turn to a similar but different conceptualization mechanism, i
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“Dizziness of Freedom”: Anxiety Disorders and Metaphorical Meaning-making Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 Kalina Moskaluk, Jordan Zlatev, Joost van de Weijer
ABSTRACT Would metaphors used in the context of psychotherapy by people who experience various forms of anxiety disorders differ from those used by people who experience stress? We investigated this question with the help of the Motivation & Sedimentation Model (MSM), a theory of meaning-making developed within the synthetic new discipline of cognitive semiotics. The analysis of a sample of ten transcripts
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The Roles of Manual and non-manual Cues in Recognizing Irony in Italian Sign Language Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 Beatrice Giustolisi, Lara Mantovan, Francesca Panzeri
ABSTRACT In a previous study, our research group investigated the expression of irony in Italian Sign Language (LIS) and suggested that specific manual and non-manual markers signaled the signer’s meaning and attitude. The present research aimed at expanding those findings by analyzing whether these markers are used in irony recognition and whether they are language-specific. We designed an experiment
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(De)humanizing Metaphors of People in Pain and Their Association with the Perceived Quality of nurse-patient Relationship Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 Eva Diniz, Paula Castro, Sónia F. Bernardes
ABSTRACT Metaphors are central in communication and sense-making processes in health-related contexts. Yet how the metaphors used by health-care-professionals to make sense of their patients and their relations to them are associated to the perceived valence of their clinical encounters is underexplored. Drawing-upon the ABC Model of Dehumanization, this study investigated how the humanizing or dehumanizing
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Review of the Book: Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 Marcin Kuczok
Published in Metaphor and Symbol (Vol. 37, No. 4, 2022)
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The Blending of Bending: How We Engage with the World of Avatar: The Last Airbender through Memes Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Thomas Van Hoey
ABSTRACT People often use memes to express their ideological stance on real world events. This study departs from a recent COVID-19-related meme which makes use of elements known from the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender (ATLA) and Avatar: Legend of Korra (LOK), and asks how it came to be and how stance is conveyed through them. After acknowledging the impact of the series, conceptual
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The Indexical Affordance of Metaphor Stain as a Case Example Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Thomas Wiben Jensen
ABSTRACT This paper investigates an unexplored indexical dimension inherent in the mapping structure of metaphor. The empirical focus is on the metaphor of stain but the scope of indexicality in relation to metaphor might be on a more general level. Based on analyses of a political statement as well as transcripts from a therapy session it is argued that previous accounts on the stain metaphor within
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For Better, for Worse, for Richer, for Poorer, in Sickness and in Health: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to Merism Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Ma Sandra Peña Cervel
ABSTRACT This paper is a qualitative usage-based treatment of merism from a cognitive-linguistic perspective. Considered a minor or non-basic figure of speech, especially if compared to the master tropes, metaphor and metonymy, merism is approached here as a figure of speech whose complexity has been largely and unfairly underestimated. We provide a principled account of the relationship of merism
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Water Metaphors and Evaluation of Syrian Migration: The Flow of Refugees in the Spanish Press Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 M. Dolores Porto
ABSTRACT In 2015 and 2016, European newspapers covered the Syrian migration into Europe in great detail, describing the path followed by millions of refugees as European authorities put up both physical and metaphorical obstacles to stop their advance. Water metaphors, a common resource in immigration discourse, were extensively used in the media during this period. Apparently neutral, expressions
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Framing the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic: Metaphors, Images and Symbols Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Martin Döring, Brigitte Nerlich
(2022). Framing the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic: Metaphors, Images and Symbols. Metaphor and Symbol: Vol. 37, Metaphor and Symbol on Covid 19, pp. 71-75.
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“World-beating” Pandemic Responses: Ironical, Sarcastic, and Satirical Use of War and Competition Metaphors in the Context of COVID-19 Pandemic Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Andreas Musolff
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic tempted some governments to promise to wage “war” against it and implement “world-beating” control mechanisms. In view of their limited success, such claims soon came in for massive criticism, which turned their hyperbolic implicatures and figurative framing against them. Our paper focuses on such cases of “metaphor reversal” within the context of the British public debate
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How We Escape Capture by the “War” Metaphor for Covid-19 Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Michael Hanne
ABSTRACT We rely on metaphors and the stories they imply as heuristic devices for communication on all important social and political matters. We are easily trapped by dominant metaphors, though fresh metaphors may generate significant paradigm shifts. During the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic, the “war” metaphor, standing for our relationship to Covid-19, established itself, like the virus
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Audience Perceptions of COVID-19 Metaphors: The Role of Source Domain and Country Context Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Britta C. Brugman, Ellen Droog, W. Gudrun Reijnierse, Saskia Leymann, Giulia Frezza, Kiki Y. Renardel de Lavalette
ABSTRACT Metaphors abound in descriptions of the COVID-19 pandemic: it is described, among other things, as a war, a flood, and a marathon. However, not all metaphors may resonate equally well with members of the public. Given that the pandemic has impacted people’s lives across countries in divergent ways – both in terms of spread and in terms of government-imposed measures, we investigated whether
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Acting like a Hedgehog in Times of Pandemic: Metaphorical Creativity in the #reframecovid Collection Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Paula Pérez-Sobrino, Elena Semino, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Veronika Koller, Inés Olza
ABSTRACT The need to provide novel but meaningful ways to reason and talk about an unprecedented crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a surge of creative metaphoric expressions in a variety of communicative settings. In order to investigate novel ways of conceptualizing the pandemic, we consider the metaphors included in the #ReframeCovid collection, a crowdsourced dataset of metaphors
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“Our Country Is a Freedom-Loving Country”: The Spreading Virus as Metaphor for “People on the Move” Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 David Gurnham
ABSTRACT Although Covid-19 has been framed using all manner of metaphors, an as-yet under-examined question is how the spreading virus might itself serve as a metaphor and what purpose this might serve. The article redresses this deficit by identifying shared experiences of the mobile virus as the basis for a metaphorical framework for evaluating and judging human behavior, including alleged rule-breaking
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COVID-19 in English and Persian: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Illness Metaphors across Languages Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Reza Kazemian, Somayeh Hatamzadeh
ABSTRACT This article investigates conceptual metaphors for Covid-19 in two languages, American English and Persian, using two approaches, namely Lakoff & Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory and Kövecses’s approach to universal metaphors. The data for the analysis were drawn from a large corpus of Covid-19 metaphors in American English and a smaller corpus extracted from major news websites in Persian
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Pull the weeds out or perish: Using pandemic metaphors to strengthen in-group solidarity in Turkish political discourse Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Esranur Efeoğlu Özcan
ABSTRACT Political discourse relies heavily on specific discursive strategies to gain, exercise and sustain power. Among those are metaphors which have the power to persuade and the potential to carry certain ideological attachments with them. This study explores and discusses how political power holders in The Grand National Assembly of Turkey make use of conceptual metaphors while framing the COVID-19
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Metaphor in the Academic Mentoring of International Undergraduate Students: The Erasmus Experience Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Rafael Alejo-González
ABSTRACT Metaphor use in university contexts has received some attention by the literature, which has mostly focussed on the language produced by academics. However, more dialogic forms of academic communications, where students are afforded opportunities for feedback on and discussion of opaque language use, are usually missing in the analyses of applied metaphor researchers. In order to partially
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Why is Semantic Change Asymmetric? The Role of Concreteness and Word Frequency and Metaphor and Metonymy Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Bodo Winter, Mahesh Srinivasan
ABSTRACT Metaphors and other tropes are commonly thought to reflect asymmetries in concreteness, with concrete sources being used to talk about relatively more abstract targets. Similarly, originating senses in diachronic semantic change have often been argued to be more concrete than extended senses. In this paper, we use a dataset of cross-linguistically attested semantic changes to empirically test
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Countering Undesirable Implications of Violence Metaphors for Cancer through Metaphor Extension Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Dunja Y. M. Wackers, H. José Plug
ABSTRACT Violence metaphors for cancer can have undesirable implications. The metaphorical expression “She lost her battle with cancer,” for instance, is deemed inappropriate by some because of the implicit suggestions it would carry about patients’ responsibility to recover from the disease – if someone “lost” it is inferred they could also have “won” if only they had “fought harder.” The current
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Got a Spark with Brook? Engaging Consumers in a Sexual Health Campaign through the Use of Creative (Metaphorical) Double Entendres Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-03 Samantha Ford, Jeannette Littlemore, David Houghton
ABSTRACT This paper describes a study conducted in collaboration with a marketing agency and a nonprofit organization (NPO) providing regional sexual health services, which included advice on, and testing for, sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The study investigated the relative effectiveness of different formulations of double entendres on appeal, humor, the likelihood of social media engagement
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Linguistic Synesthesia in Turkish: A Corpus-based Study of Crossmodal Directionality Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-03 Alper Kumcu
ABSTRACT Linguistic synesthesia (or synesthetic/intrafield/crossmodal metaphor) refers to crossmodal instances in which expressions in different sensory modalities are combined as in the case of sweet (taste) melody (hearing). Ullmann was among the first to show that synesthetic transfers seem to follow a potentially universal hierarchy that goes from the so-called “lower” (i.e., touch, taste and smell)
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Constructing a Broad Model for Proverb Understanding Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-03 El Mustapha Lemghari
ABSTRACT Based on the view that “The meanings that we take most for granted are those where the complexity is best hidden”, the paper attempts to describe the complex cognitive operations at work in the process of proverb understanding. The main goal is to build up a model capable of accounting for how proverbs mean and how speakers within a speech community understand them the way they do. Such a
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Structure Mapping in Second-Language Metaphor Processing Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-10-03 Miki Ikuta, Koji Miwa
ABSTRACT This study investigated metaphor processing in a second language (L2) by considering both analogy and categorization. Previous studies found that forward metaphors (e.g., “Some babies are angels”) were judged as to be more comprehensible than reversed metaphors (e.g., “Some angels are babies”) only when the sentences were presented for a long time. Based on this finding, structure mapping
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Metaphor Production by Patients with Schizophrenia – A Case Analysis Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-28 Kristina Š. Despot, M. Sekulić Sović, M. Vilibić, N. Mimica
ABSTRACT It is well evidenced that patients with schizophrenia demonstrate impairments of figurative language comprehension. Their metaphor production has not attracted nearly as much scholarly attention. We, therefore, studied metaphor production in patients with schizophrenia as compared to non-psychiatric controls. Qualitative case analysis on three levels (linguistic, conceptual, and discourse)
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Scientists, Poets and Iconic Realities: A Cognitive Theory of Aesthetics Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-28 Lacey Okonski
(2021). Scientists, Poets and Iconic Realities: A Cognitive Theory of Aesthetics. Metaphor and Symbol: Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 141-145.
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Towards A Better Understanding of Metonymy Metaphor and Symbol (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2021-06-28 Ke Li, Shukang Li
(2021). Towards A Better Understanding of Metonymy. Metaphor and Symbol: Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 146-149.