Cattle, progress, and a victimized nation

Abstract

This paper analyzes three sources of discourse on immigration in the United States: congressional debates from the 1920s representing two polarized sides, a speech by President Obama, and a speech by President Trump. The goal of this analysis was to explore how the conceptual metaphors used in discussing immigration may have changed over the past century, in order to gain insight into the current polarization surrounding this topic. Results reveal striking similarities between Trump’s rhetoric and metaphorical framing and the 1920s anti-immigration side’s arguments, in that both situate the United States as a victim of immigration. In contrast, although there are fewer similarities between Obama’s metaphors and metaphorical frames and those used by earlier supporters of immigration, the claim that immigrants are a benefit to the United States remains constant.

University students’ metaphors for Canadian multiculturalism: Diverse perceptions

“…If metaphor is part and parcel of everyday discourse (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980), then it stands to reason that it will also constitute a substantial portion of socio‐political discourse (Charteris‐Black, 2004 & 2011; Ritchie et al., 2018; Smith, 2019), including discourse about multiculturalism and related subjects (e.g., immigration and ethnic diversity). For example, previous research has documented that multicultural society is sometimes referred to as a melting pot and as a mosaic (Gloor, 2006; Halstead, 2007; Longley, 2020; Peach, 2005), but, as we shall see, many more metaphors for the subject are being used.…”

Source Domains of Smell Related Metaphorical Collocations: Study Based on Corpus of Contemporary American English

“…The fields of conceptual metaphor research encompass various aspects of the society life. Cibulskiene (2012), Kapranov (2015), Gibbs (2015), Schoor (2015), Musolff (2016), Degani (2018), Ghentulescu (2018), Greavu (2018), Zibin (2018), Chatti (2019), Kwon (2019), Smith (2019), Marissa (2020) address metaphors in political discourse. Conceptual metaphors of poetry, painting, cinema, music are analysed in Forceville and Rencken's (2013), Seskauskiene and Levandauskaite's (2013), Poppi and Kravanja's (2019), Rasse, Onysko and Citron's (2020) works.…”

Speakers who metaphorize together – argue together

“…These functions have been identified in such genres like political speeches, political manifestoes, interviews, debates and media reports (Atkins et al, 2020;Bakhtiar, 2016;Borčić et al, 2018;Charteris-Black, 2004;Cibulskienė, 2012;Dumitriu & Negrea-Busuioc, 2017;Goatly, 1997;Lakoff, 2010;Musolff, 2016;Tsakona, 2012;Zeng et al, 2020). Metaphors are linked with arguments, as in a study of the immigration discourse in the US, in which Smith (2019) observes that metaphors convey certain arguments and stir up the discussion. He used the term metaphor interchangeably with argument, which is understood as a non-technical term, unrelated to any theory of argumentation.…”