Does deliberate metaphor theory have a future?

Gibbs, Raymond W.

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2015.03.016

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“…In the real world, politicians do not speak so carefully; they often push only one side of the debate and make the desired comparisons explicit in their messaging campaigns. It has been suggested that this deliberate dimension of metaphorical discourse may be important for how people respond to a particular message, resulting in greater influence and persuasion (e.g., Steen, ; but see Gibbs, ). Therefore, it is possible that a more ecologically valid statement that explicitly compares the President to the manager of a household budget and highlights the importance of this mapping would result in a stronger effect of the message frame, especially for those who are predisposed to resonate with or value this metaphorical comparison (i.e., right‐leaning voters).…”

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Metaphorical Accounting: How Framing the Federal Budget Like a Household's Affects Voting Intentions

Thibodeau¹,

Flusberg

2017

Cognitive Science

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Political discourse is saturated with metaphor, but evidence for the persuasive power of this language has been hard to come by. We addressed this issue by investigating whether voting intentions were affected by implicit mappings suggested by a metaphorically framed message, drawing on a real-world example of political rhetoric about the federal budget. In the first experiment, the federal budget was framed as similar to or different from a household budget, though the information participants received was identical in both conditions. When the federal budget was described as similar to a household's, people considered the personal finances of a presidential candidate more relevant-a finding we replicated in a larger, pre-registered study. In a follow-up experiment, we presented participants with a more explicit rhetorical argument and found a similar effect, moderated by political affiliation. These studies illuminate how metaphorical comparison affects cognition for important real-world issues, sometimes in unintended ways.

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Metaphorical Accounting: How Framing the Federal Budget Like a Household's Affects Voting Intentions

Thibodeau¹,

Flusberg

2017

Cognitive Science

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“…Tanto opositores (Gibbs, 2015;Gibbs & Chen, 2017) como el mismo Steen (2017) han reconocido como debilidad de la tmd el carecer de estudios empíricos y experimentales que sustenten sus postulados. En respuesta a esto se ha señalado que se trata de una teoría de formulación precisa reciente en cuanto a sus supuestos (Steen, 2017).…”

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Teoría de la metáfora conceptual y teoría de la metáfora deliberada: ¿propuestas complementarias?

Morales

2019

ELA

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En el contexto cognitivista de los estudios del lenguaje han surgido distintas propuestas para el estudio de la metáfora. Esta nota muestra un análisis comparativo de las propuestas de la teoría de la metáfora conceptual (TMC) y de la metáfora deliberada (TMD), tomando como criterios sus supuestos y aplicaciones investigativas. Posteriormente se propone el diálogo entre dichas teorías y la delimitación de sus áreas de investigación. El análisis realizado permite establecer conexiones entre ambas teorías y plantear posibles áreas de investigación que fortalezcan el estudio de la metáfora y su relación con el lenguaje, el pensamiento y la comunicación.

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“…As a developing theoretical framework, DMT is in need of research that empirically investigates the distinction between deliberate and non-deliberate metaphor (Gibbs, 2015a;Steen, 2017). To the best of our knowledge, little empirical work has been done on the cognitive processing of deliberate versus non-deliberate metaphors (see Gibbs, 2015b;Krennmayr, Bowdle, Mulder, & Steen, 2014). There is, however, a body of work using ERP or behavioral methods which suggests that metaphors are processed differently as compared to nonmetaphorical language.…”

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Eye movements reveal readers’ sensitivity to deliberate metaphors during narrative reading

Vries

Reijnierse

Willems

2018

SSOL

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Metaphors occur frequently in literary texts. Deliberate Metaphor Theory (DMT; e.g.,Steen, 2017) proposes that metaphors that serve a communicative functionasmetaphor are radically different from metaphors that do not have this function. We investigated differences in processing between deliberate and non-deliberate metaphors, compared to non-metaphorical words in literary reading. Using the Deliberate Metaphor Identification Procedure (Reijnierse et al., 2018), we identified metaphors in two literary stories. Then, eye-tracking was used to investigate participants’ (N = 72) reading behavior. Deliberate metaphors were read slower than non-deliberate metaphors, and both metaphor types were read slower than non-metaphorical words. Differences were controlled for several psycholinguistic variables. Differences in reading behavior were related to individual differences in reading experience and absorption and appreciation of the story. These results are in line with predictions from DMT and underline the importance of distinguishing between metaphor types in the experimental study of literary reading.

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Does deliberate metaphor theory have a future?

Cited by 72 publications

References 6 publications

Metaphorical Accounting: How Framing the Federal Budget Like a Household's Affects Voting Intentions

Metaphorical Accounting: How Framing the Federal Budget Like a Household's Affects Voting Intentions

Teoría de la metáfora conceptual y teoría de la metáfora deliberada: ¿propuestas complementarias?

Eye movements reveal readers’ sensitivity to deliberate metaphors during narrative reading

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