Evincing the soul of a city

Brown, Alistair

doi:10.1080/13617672.2020.1746877

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“…In this context, what may appear as a superficial accounting metaphor on initial reading may become more meaningful when deep structures that underlie accounting metaphors are apprehended (Brown, 2018). The deep structure of metaphorical analysis with its attendant foundations of the realist epistemology (Brown, 2020(Brown, , 2019 helps overcome the primacy given by accounting academics to "the essential literalness of language and its tools of formal (mathematical) logic and classic set theory" (Cameron and Low, 1999, p. 78).…”

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The accounting meta-metaphor of the Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot

Brown

2020

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Purpose Using the theory of sensibility and McClelland et al.’s (2013) metaphorical analysis, this study aims to analyse the accounting metaphors and meta-metaphor of The Hollow Men, a poem written by T. S. Eliot. Design/methodology/approach The analysis uses McClelland et al.’s (2013) five-step procedure to ascertain the poem’s metaphor use. Findings The Hollow Men depicts accountants as ritualistic and accounting voices as quiet and meaningless while its meta-metaphor conveys accounting as rites and shadows. Research limitations/implications Although The Hollow Men’s use of Form 4 metaphors, where neither figurative nor literal source term is named, places an onus on the reader to infer meaning from accounting metaphor use, the analysis provides readers with a valuable structure for evincing accounting metaphors that present pervasive accounting issues facing the modern world. Practical implications Accountants, according to The Hollow Men, are hollow, devotees to plunderers and property and rain dancers. The Hollow Men situates the quest for accounting as a ritual for order and the preservation of the status quo. Social implications The Hollow Men’s mages of accounting immersion in rites and shadows accord with the conceptual metaphors of accounting as magic and accounting as history. Originality/value The originality of this study rests in its introduction to McClelland et al.’s (2013) metaphorical analysis of accounting research.

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The accounting meta-metaphor of the Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot

Brown

2020

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Evincing the soul of a city

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The accounting meta-metaphor of the Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot

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