40 anos de Metaphors we live by: considerações sobre a teoria das metáforas conceituais de Lakoff e Johnson / 40 years of Metaphors we live by: remarks on Lakoff  and Johnson’s theory of conceptual metaphors

Silva, Gustavo Augusto Fonseca

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“…The precise relationship between language, culture and materiality has been central to debates on Lakoff and Johnson's work and its role in the emergence of a field of cognitive linguistics. There has been skepticism, for instance, over the extent to which "new metaphors have the power to create a new reality" (LAKOFF; JOHNSON, 2003, p. 146), especially when this claim is coupled with prescriptions on how to reshape political debate or cultural traits through linguistic shifts (see SILVA, 2021). This attention to metaphors has, however, informed important reflection in a variety of fields of knowledge, including IR -as seen in Michael P. Marks' (2018) work on how metaphorical concepts such as "core / center / periphery", "transition", or "domestic interests" are integral to how the field itself is structured, shaping shared assumptions, hypotheses, and theories.…”

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Criminal Violence, Political Violence, and the Politics of Line-Drawing in Latin America

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This thesis sews together stories from Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, in which the line between criminal violence on the one hand, and political violence on the other, has been drawn over the 2000s. It focuses on two dimensions: firstly, the line-drawing practices of governments who justify increasing military roles in public security, as well as of military officials themselves as they implement these operations; and secondly, the practices of governments and civil society organizations establishing truth-seeking mechanisms to clarify patterns and cases of violence in the past and in the present. Two sets of metaphors are mobilized as analytical devices to make sense of these processes, in connection with different meanings of the verb to draw: on the one hand, the act of inscribing a trace over a surface; on the other hand, the act of pulling a thread over three-dimensional space. I argue that the drawing of that line has been central to the treatment of organized violence by governments and civil society organizations, in three countries which have seen both an increase in military deployment against criminal actors and the establishment of transitional justice mechanisms devoted to victims' right to truth, frustrating expectations associated with the standards of "peace" and "democracy" -two trends which have, however, taken place against markedly different historical contexts of democratization and peacebuilding, as discussed in the thesis. The stories gathered here will be informed by an analysis of sources as varied as government documents, truth commissions' reports, interviews with experts and activists of all three countries, and scholarly literature. Attending to how distinctions, connections and (dis)continuities are drawn between criminal violence and political violence in these Latin American countries allows us to critically assess conditions of possibility for the reproduction of violent patterns and the prospects for their positive transformation, as well as the elements and limits of a political imagination for which these "violent peaceful democracies" have emerged as a puzzle in the first place.

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Criminal Violence, Political Violence, and the Politics of Line-Drawing in Latin America

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Frouxonaro and cuckservatives: metaphors of virile masculinity in bolsonarista digital activism

Ramos

2023

Sex., Salud Soc. (Rio J.)

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This article focuses on the use of virility metaphors in the political actions of far-right cyberactivists. It examines the attacks exchanged between agents within the far-right, in particular those targeted against Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilian president from 2019 to 2022, by his male followers who share his anti-feminism. It is argued that, in these disputes, metaphors of virility have a dual role: they are a way of interpreting and of evaluating opponents, disputes and men themselves. This role results from the articulation between three elements: i) beliefs and attitudes based on an ideal of virility; ii) a lived experience of being and becoming a man; and, iii), how digital platforms operate. Our hypothesis is that there is an elective affinity between, on the one hand, the form of male socialisation defined as the “men’s house” by Welzer-Lang and, on the other hand, the architecture of digital platforms designed as a competitive, anti-institutional environment in which visibility and reputation are built.

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Frouxonauro e cornoservadores: metáforas de virilidade masculina no ativismo digital da extrema direita brasileira

Ramos

2023

Sex., Salud Soc. (Rio J.)

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Resumo Este artigo tem por objeto o uso de metáforas de virilidade nas ações políticas de ciberativistas de extrema direita. Vamos examinar os ataques trocados entre agentes do mesmo campo da extrema-direita, em particular aqueles dirigidos contra o então presidente Jair Bolsonaro por homens que são seus seguidores e compartilham de seu antifeminismo. Veremos que as metáforas da virilidade têm um papel duplo nessas disputas: como forma de compreender e avaliar tanto adversários e disputas quanto a si mesmos. Esse papel nasce da articulação entre três elementos: i) crenças e atitudes baseadas em um ideal de virilidade; ii) uma experiência vivida de ser e tornar-se homem; e, iii), o modo de funcionamento das plataformas digitais. Argumentamos que existe uma afinidade eletiva entre, de um lado, a forma de socialização masculina definida por Welzer-Lang com seu conceito de “casa dos homens”, e, de outro, a arquitetura das plataformas digitais desenhada como um espaço competitivo e anti-institucional no qual se constrói visibilidade e reputação.

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40 anos de Metaphors we live by: considerações sobre a teoria das metáforas conceituais de Lakoff e Johnson / 40 years of Metaphors we live by: remarks on Lakoff and Johnson’s theory of conceptual metaphors

Cited by 4 publications

References 42 publications

Criminal Violence, Political Violence, and the Politics of Line-Drawing in Latin America

Criminal Violence, Political Violence, and the Politics of Line-Drawing in Latin America

Frouxonaro and cuckservatives: metaphors of virile masculinity in bolsonarista digital activism

Frouxonauro e cornoservadores: metáforas de virilidade masculina no ativismo digital da extrema direita brasileira

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