Figuration and language history: Universality and variation

Díaz-Vera, Javier E.

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“…In Russia, the past decades have seen the rapid development of new areas of diachronic research in conceptology (Bogatyreva 2009, Kolesov 2018, Kondratieva 2011, cultural linguistics (Larina, Ozyumenko & Kurteš. 2021, Sazonova & Borozdina 2010, Shaklein 2009, comparative conceptology (Bogatyreva 2011, Kuznetsov 2007, metaphor studies (Allan 2008, Cánovas 2015, Díaz-Vera 2015, Geeraerts 2010, Kövecses 2005, Solopova 2015, 2020, Solopova & Saltykova 2019, Solopova & Chudinov 2018, Trim 2011, Chudinov, Budaev & Solopova 2020.…”

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War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse

Solopova

Александровна²,

Kushneruk

et al. 2021

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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The paper focuses on diachronic framing analysis of Russias images in British media discourse. The importance of the research is determined by a need to work out adequate linguistic foundations to counteract information war, generated by some foreign media and aimed at distorting Russias history and eroding its spiritual values. Few scholars have drawn on any systematic research into analysis of Russias images in foreign media discourses of different historical spans. The major objective is to compare Russias images and their emotional charge in the British media in chronologically divided periods of war and peace under the influence of changing historical and ideological factors. The authors account for the mechanisms by which Russias images are framed and transformed in the contexts of the largest war of the XX century and the information war of the XXI century. The material comprises 500 samples per period. The data covering two historical spans are investigated through a framing approach. The criteria for diachronic analysis are dominant diagnostic and prognostic frames, constituting the macroframe WAR. The significant difference in Russias images in war- and peacetime consists in their emotive load: Russias contemporary negative images are contrasted to positive images activated in the retrospective period. The findings support the idea that British media discourse focusing on Russia is subject-centered: Russias image is determined by the geopolitical situation, Great Britains political priorities and objectives, and the bilateral relationship between the countries. The results can be used to further develop the linguistic basics of war theory.

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War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse

Solopova

Александровна²,

Kushneruk

et al. 2021

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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“…On the other hand, investigating how metaphor senses change over time is crucial, especially in the context of our rapidly evolving technological age. As new concepts emerge and existing ones evolve, so do the metaphors we use to describe and make sense of them (Allan 2008, Anderson 2017, Díaz-Vera 2015, Geeraerts 2015, Solopova & Chudinov 2018, Trim 2011, Zeng et al 2021. The retrospective and diachronic study of metaphors provide a unique opportunity to observe how metaphor senses and connotations can be influenced by shifts in historical and societal contexts.…”

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“…С другой стороны, в условиях постоянно меняющегося мира не менее важным представляется изучение динамики метафор и факторов, обусловливающих их трансформацию: c возникновением новых и эволюцией существующих понятий и явлений изменяются и метафоры, которые используются для их концептуализации и интерпретации. Результаты ретроспективных и диахронических исследований метафоры показывают, что смыслы и коннотации метафор в целом предопределены историческим и социокультурным контекстом (Allan 2008, Anderson 2017, Díaz-Vera 2015, Geeraerts 2015, Solopova & Chudinov 2018, Trim 2011, Zeng et al 2021.…”

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Metaphors across languages, cultures and discourses: A research agenda

Zibin,

Solopova

2024

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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This special issue explores metaphor across languages, cultures, and discourses, bringing together papers that reflect the diversity and scope of this research area. The aim is to foster discussion and exchange ideas concerning the role of metaphor in conceptualization, persuasion, and the construction of meaning. In this introductory article, we focus on the two main themes: (1) the universality of metaphor versus cultural variations in its usage; (2) the communicative function of metaphor in discourse. Within these main themes, we discuss case studies that highlight specific domains, including universal and cross-cultural variation in metaphor usage, discursive and communicative aspects of metaphor, and multimodal metaphor. In this article, we provide a summary of the contributions of our authors that represent up-to-date research on issues involving metaphor from a wide scope of perspectives and manage to open up a methodological discussion within metaphor studies. Finally, we summarize the main results and suggest a brief avenue for further research.

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“…Which has led to a heated debate on the potential universal character of some of their construals (seeDíaz-Vera, 2015;Geeraerts & Gevaert, 2008;Kövecses, 2005).…”

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Aesthetic emotional reactions and their verbal expression in a corpus of Japanese travellers’ online reviews

Díaz-Vera

2023

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Using Conceptual Metaphor Theory, I propose a study of aesthetic emotional expressions in Japanese. With this aim, I have created a medium-sized corpus (c100,000 running words) of travellers’ reviews in Japanese published on TripAdvisor between 2012 and 2022. The corpus consists of 1,100 reviews, grouped into three subsections, corresponding to three of the most visited landmarks in Japan (namely, Mount Fuji, Fushimi Inari-Taisha Shrine, and the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome). The reviews chosen for this research include at least one reference, either literal or figurative, to the users’ aesthetic evaluation of their visit. My list of aesthetic emotions consists of four large categories: emotions of pleasure (e.g., attraction, fluency), emotions of contemplation (e.g., interest, intrigue), emotions of amazement (e.g., awe, wonder), and emotions of respect (e.g., admiration, adoration). For each aesthetic emotion, I have identified a series of source domains, which I analyse in detail in my discussion. As my data shows, many of our aesthetic expressions are rooted in the psychological and behavioural changes triggered by these emotions and, therefore, should be considered embodied. More importantly, through the analysis of the conceptual mappings involved in these linguistic expressions, it can be affirmed that aesthetic reactions are sensitive to cultural influences and, thus, they are not necessarily universal.

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Figuration and language history: Universality and variation

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War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse

War yesterday and today: The image of Russia in British media discourse

Metaphors across languages, cultures and discourses: A research agenda

Aesthetic emotional reactions and their verbal expression in a corpus of Japanese travellers’ online reviews

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