Political Metaphor Analysis : Discourse and Scenarios
- Submitting institution
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The University of East Anglia
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 182632756
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781441160669
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This long-form output analyzes international political metaphor use on the basis of several large synchronic and diachronic corpora of political metaphors (altogether 1.5 million items) which have been collected over a decade. The book challenges fundamental tenets of conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) by introducing the notion of “metaphor scenarios” as a new analytical category and applying it to corpus samples from diverse historical, cultural and genre contexts. It reveals narrative, argumentative and evaluative patterns in these data, which were hitherto unaccounted for by CMT and integrates sociolinguistic and pragmatic variation in a new methodological framework for studying figurative language use.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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