Chapter 1. MIPVU in multiple languages

Nacey, Susan; Dorst, Aletta G.; Krennmayr, Tina; Reijnierse, W. Gudrun; Steen, Gerard J.

doi:10.1075/celcr.22.01nac

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“…In spite of these lessons learnt, we cautiously conclude that there were no fundamental issues associated with applying appraisal analysis to these ancient texts that would call the entire operation into question. The challenges as outlined were well within the range of typical challenges associated with complex discourse analysis (Fuoli 2018; compare also Nacey et al 2019 for an entire volume on annotating metaphor across different languages, as a different complex discourse analysis aspect).…”

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Evaluating Jesus and other “heroes”

Lamb

Tenbrink

2022

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The appraisal framework developed by Martin and White and others working within systemic functional linguistics has been applied in a wide variety of contexts. However, to our knowledge, it has been little used in the interpretation of ancient written documents. We believe that it may have value, amongst other things, in determining the genre of such literature and we see this as particularly relevant in the area of biography, where the author’s presentation of the subject is a key factor. So, in this study, we apply aspects of the appraisal framework to three Hellenistic Greek texts often categorised with the genre “Lives”. Selected passages from these texts were divided into short units for quantitative analysis that focused on the Judgement that the texts’ authors make of their central characters (their “heroes”), how this is amplified and how they engage with different “voices”. These passages were also compared with the rest of the texts in a more qualitative study. Our results show notable differences in the Judgement the authors make and presumably wish their readers to share in terms of the positive/negative portrayal of their “heroes”, the degree of amplification and the interaction with other “voices”. We consider the appropriateness of the “Lives” genre for one of these texts, the Gospel of John, and also a number of methodological issues arising from an area of application that has not previously received attention. These include the difficulty of making clear-cut evaluation choices where authors themselves may be ambivalent about those they are describing and the need to take account of the differing and complex value systems of ancient cultures. We suggest that our findings may have wider relevance for other applications of appraisal.

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Evaluating Jesus and other “heroes”

Lamb

Tenbrink

2022

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“…the first paragraph of the news, usually containing the gist. In our analysis, we relied on the identification of metaphors using the MIP (Metaphor Identification Procedure) (Nacey et al, 2019;Pragglejaz Group, 2007), which involves comparing the contextual and basic vocabulary meanings of each lexical unit to identify conceptual metaphorical mappings.…”

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Virus Image In The Chinese Media: Comparative Analysis Of Coronavirus And Ebola Metaphoric Represantation

Kalinin¹

2020

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…The gradual theoretical evolution and the continuous methodological developments of scientific inquiry related to metaphor analysis provided the literature with several proposals and procedures of metaphor analysis ( Pragglejaz Group, 2007 ; Steen et al, 2010 ; Nacey et al, 2019 ). The analysis of metaphoricity in this research benefited from attested and empirically revealing methods of metaphor identification: the Pragglejaz Group’s metaphor identification procedure (MIP: Pragglejaz Group, 2007 ) and the method for linguistic metaphor identification which was refined and extended by Steen and his team at Vrije University, therefore called MIPVU ( Steen et al, 2010 ).…”

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Sports fanaticism as a disease: a Corpus-based study of metaphors in Saudi newspapers

Mobarki,

Alzahrani

2024

Front. Psychol.

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Sports fanaticism seems to be a social and national concern in Saudi Arabia. This paper aims: 1) to identify the metaphorical manifestations and highlight the discursive construction of disease as associated with sports fanaticism in a corpus of Saudi newspapers articles; and 2) to seek plausible explanations for the emergence and use of disease metaphors in newspapers articles addressing sports fanaticism. King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology Arabic Corpus (KACSTAC) served the data for the current study. The analytical procedures were informed by the discourse dynamics approach and metaphor-led discourse analysis. Findings show that sports fanaticism could be associated with the following systematic metaphors: 1) disease, in general; 2) disease causes; 3) disease symptoms; 4) disease evaluations; and 5) disease needs for medical solutions, interventions, treatments, and/or prescriptions. The discussion evokes a number of aspects: sports fanaticism emerges as a key topic; disease metaphors seem to be shaped and developed by the societal context and the nature of newspapers texts and discourse; they are enriched and influenced by the discourse situation and the needs to jointly construct and communicate intense experiences through specific evaluations and referential functions, which have a powerful resonance for the Saudi national and social levels; the use of disease metaphorical frames can structure our understanding and can simplify the concept of fanaticism.

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Chapter 1. MIPVU in multiple languages

Cited by 11 publications

References 30 publications

Evaluating Jesus and other “heroes”

Evaluating Jesus and other “heroes”

Virus Image In The Chinese Media: Comparative Analysis Of Coronavirus And Ebola Metaphoric Represantation

Sports fanaticism as a disease: a Corpus-based study of metaphors in Saudi newspapers

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