‘Beautiful masterpieces’: Metaphors of the female body in modest fashion blogs

Ringrow, Helen

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“…Lopez 2009). Blogging appears to be regarded and even encouraged as a positive activity for mothers, as a way to share the highs and lows of parenting with other women amongst and outside their faith communities (Ringrow 2020;Whitehead 2013). The proliferation and popularity of religious mommy blogs may be in part due to the emphasis from Latter-day Saint and Evangelical Christian doctrine and cultural practices on being both a wife and mother.…”

Section: Blogs In Religious Contextsmentioning

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“…The approach to the data follows the procedure I have used previously for examining religious modest fashion blogs (Ringrow 2020). This article applies Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT; Johnson 1980/2003; see also Charteris-Black 2004).…”

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“…1.close reading of data 2.marked and identified metaphorical expressions (using MIP, metaphor identification procedure, from the Pragglejaz Group, which aims to help systematise metaphor classifications. For more on this, please see https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/eiaes/Pragglejaz_Group_2007.pdf) 3.metaphorical expressions grouped according to their conceptual metaphors (Ringrow 2020).…”

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“…Gibbs 2009). As with my previous research (Ringrow 2020), the use of the steps outlined above is an attempt to provide a clear and systematic overview of how the analysis was conducted. The following sections discuss how metaphors of motherhood are constructed in the religious mommy blogs analysed, understood in light of previous literature on metaphor in religious and non-religious contexts (including Charteris-Black 2004;Knapton 2013;Ringrow 2020;Koller 2017) and with reference to the spiritual and digital contexts of these blogs.…”

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“…Common metaphors from my blog sample are discussed in the following sections, and what emerges is a merging of what we might call 'secular' and 'religious' domains (Cameron 2013;Ringrow 2020): conventional, everyday metaphors tend to be repurposed to apply specifically to the experiences of motherhood (the importance of which, for these women, is filtered through the lens of their faiths). In other words, the blogs tend to re-use or reapply metaphors found in other texts, religious and otherwise (cf.…”

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“I can feel myself being squeezed and stretched, moulded and grown, and expanded in my capacity to love loudly and profoundly”: Metaphor and religion in motherhood blogs

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2020

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This article will explore how metaphors of motherhood are used by contemporary female bloggers who are affiliated with certain faith groups. Within religious contexts especially, motherhood blogs are often seen as suitable activities for women (and for young stay-at-home-mothers in particular). Motherhood blogs, like similar female-oriented texts such as internet parenting forums, have a key role to play in terms of understanding, replicating, and/or challenging gendered norms, both online and off (cf. Mackenzie 2017b(cf. Mackenzie , 2018. This article examines two sets of so-called 'mommy bloggers' from North American Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint and Evangelical Christian backgrounds, following Knapton's (2013) work on metaphor in pro-anorexia blogs. It analyses emergent online representations of motherhood in these two internet communities whose faith groups hold similar (yet not identical) beliefs, which include beliefs about the divine calling and design of being a mother. The analysis of selected extracts from the blogs suggests an explicit foregrounding of religious elements in the Evangelical Christian blogs, whereas the religious context tends to be more subtly expressed or axiomatic for the Latter-day Saint bloggers. Common metaphors of motherhood (such as MOTHERHOOD IS A JOURNEY) appear frequently in the discourse of both digital communities, presenting motherhood as a difficult yet immensely rewarding experience, and one which can be shared with others online.

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‘Wrap our arms around them here in Ireland’: Social media campaigns in the Irish abortion referendum

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The 8th Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which codified a near-absolute ban on abortion in Ireland, was ratified in 1983 and removed after a high profile campaign to ‘Repeal the 8th’ in 2018. This article analyses the language of the pro-choice group Together for Yes and the anti-choice groups Love Both and Pro-Life Ireland that campaigned to ‘Save the 8th’. We combine an application of the Appraisal framework with an account of conceptual metaphor in a Critical Discourse Analysis of the language of both campaigns on the social network platform Twitter. Both sides of the ‘Repeal Referendum’ strategically utilised language across a wide range of semiotic modes. This article assesses the specific role of social media language in the Irish abortion referendum and connects these strategies to the wider campaign tactics of both sides.

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‘Beautiful masterpieces’: Metaphors of the female body in modest fashion blogs

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“I can feel myself being squeezed and stretched, moulded and grown, and expanded in my capacity to love loudly and profoundly”: Metaphor and religion in motherhood blogs

“I can feel myself being squeezed and stretched, moulded and grown, and expanded in my capacity to love loudly and profoundly”: Metaphor and religion in motherhood blogs

Chapter 1. Responding to style

‘Wrap our arms around them here in Ireland’: Social media campaigns in the Irish abortion referendum

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