Force-interactive patterns in immigration discourse: A Cognitive Linguistic approach to CDA

Hart, Christopher

doi:10.1177/0957926510395440

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“…A similar trend of negatively conceptualizing migration in discourse has been observed in sociolinguistic research in the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics (Gibbs, 1992;Lakoff, 1993;Lakoff & Johnson, 1980;Lakoff & Turner, 1989) and critical metaphor analysis (CMA; Charteris-Black, 2006;Hart, 2011;Musolff, 2011Musolff, , 2012Musolff, , 2015O'Brien, 2003;Santa Ana, 2002). Both U.S. and European scholars discuss and demonstrate how negative representation of migration is realized through the use of metaphor, and what kind of social and political consequences it might lead to.…”

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Migration, Metaphor and Myth in Media Representations: The Ideological Dichotomy of “Them” and “Us”

Arcimavičienė

Bağlama

2018

SAGE Open

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By focussing on the dichotomized metaphorical strategy and myth creation, this study aims to analyze how the U.S. and the European Union (EU) media respond to the entrenched metaphor of migration and refugee "crisis". In this respect, the U.S. and the EU media sources covering the time period from 2015 to 2016 were collected and analyzed in the theoretical framework of conceptual metaphor theory and critical metaphor analysis. By applying the metaphor identification procedure, it has been determined that most of the media narratives contribute to further developing the central bias of migration by means of metaphorical delegitimization that is discursively construed through the binary opposition between "them" and "us." The metaphorical representation has been grouped into two kinds of ideologically represented story lines: (a) the myth of dehumanization, realized through the metaphors of Objects and Commodities; and (b) the myth of moral authority, realized through the metaphors of Natural Phenomena, Crime, and Terrorism. The findings have shown that most of the media narratives both delegitimize and stigmatize the status of a migrant by deeper entrenching the "outsider" stereotype and, therefore, create the general feelings of instability and intolerance within the EU.

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Migration, Metaphor and Myth in Media Representations: The Ideological Dichotomy of “Them” and “Us”

Arcimavičienė

Bağlama

2018

SAGE Open

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“…The use of dehumanizing and stigmatizing metaphors in political polemics and, in particular, in immigration debates has been analysed and commented on in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)-oriented research on many occasions (Böke 1997;Bosmaijan 1983;Chilton 2005;Cisneros 2008;Hart 2010Hart , 2011Hawkins 2001;Hönigsperger 1994;KhosraviNik 2010;Musolff 2012). One of the methodological hallmarks of this research tradition has been a focus on the "production side" of metaphors, i.e., demonstration of their occurrence, frequency and intensity in texts produced by political leaders, journalists, and other commentators.…”

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Dehumanizing metaphors in UK immigrant debates in press and online media

Мусолфф¹

2017

Benjamins Current Topics

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Some Internet genres, in particular Weblogs and discussion fora, have a dubious reputation for giving voice to strongly polemical discourses or hate-speech. This paper investigates the use of dehumanizing metaphors, specifically parasite metaphors, in British debates about immigration. It compares the range of metaphors used in Blogs with that used in online fora and in mainstream newspaper coverage and concludes that despite substantial variation, they can be categorised into four main scenarios, of which one includes dehumanizing metaphors such as depictions of immigrants as parasites, leeches, or bloodsuckers. Whilst this kind of stigmatizing imagery occurs across the three different media genres, the samples also show significant quantitative and qualitative differences: dehumanizing metaphors occur most often and their potential for aggressive argumentation and polemics is exploited in more detail in Blogs than in the fora, and least in the mainstream press. It is then asked what cognitive import this differential usage has in view of a) the discourse histories of such metaphors and b) their most likely present-day semantic motivation. The paper concludes that while it is unlikely that present-day users have detailed knowledge of the etymological and conceptual histories of such metaphors, it is also improbable to assume a wholly "unconscious" or "automatic" use or reception in the respective community of practice, and that instead it is more likely that they are used with a high degree of "deliberateness" and a modicum of discourse-historical awareness.

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“…The analysis relies on a corpus of news reports and opinion articles comprehending the years when the Syrian conflict was at its height and, therefore, the number of refugees seeking asylum in Europe at its peak from 2015 to 2016 (Álvarez-Osorio, 2016;Espinosa & Prieto, 2016). In addition to this corpus-based approach, the study integrates findings coming from (Critical) Socio-Cognitive models of discourse and metaphor (Charteris-Black, 2004Chilton, 2004;Hart, 2010Hart, , 2011Musolff & Zinken, 2009;Semino, 2008;Steen, 2011;Soares da Silva, 2016;Soares da Silva et al, 2017;among others), together with the general framework of Cultural Linguistics (Bernárdez, 2008;Frank et al, 2008;Sharifian, 2011Frank, 2015). And more specifically, the analytical tools deriving from Image-Schema theory (Hampe & Grady, 2005;Johnson, 1987) and Force-Dynamics theory (Talmy, 1985(Talmy, , 1988(Talmy, , 2000 have been especially useful, as explained in section 3.…”

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‘Refugees are streaming into Europe’: An image-schema analysis of the Syrian Refugee crisis in the Spanish and British press

Romano¹

2019

Complut. j. Engl. stud.

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By analysing the combination of an apparently neutral water metaphor, 'flujo de refugiados / (in)migrantes' and 'flow of refugees / (im)migrants', with very specific image schemas, in El País and The Guardian from 2015 to 2016, when the Syrian refugee crisis was at its peak, this study aims at uncovering the conceptualization of the refugees in two European host countries. To this aim, the study contributes to the field of anti-immigration discourse by presenting a comprehensive qualitative analysis of all the image schemas identified in the data (force, path, up-down, container, and balance); a crosslinguistic and corpus-based, quantitative analysis of the different schemas used in the newspapers; and a study based on the left-wing press, intuitively considered to have a more pro-immigration orientation. In short, the analysis reveals how, these highly covert preconceptual structures, used as powerful ideological tools, help to shape public opinion by projecting a very clear refugees as danger frame. 2

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Force-interactive patterns in immigration discourse: A Cognitive Linguistic approach to CDA

Cited by 88 publications

References 25 publications

Migration, Metaphor and Myth in Media Representations: The Ideological Dichotomy of “Them” and “Us”

Migration, Metaphor and Myth in Media Representations: The Ideological Dichotomy of “Them” and “Us”

Dehumanizing metaphors in UK immigrant debates in press and online media

‘Refugees are streaming into Europe’: An image-schema analysis of the Syrian Refugee crisis in the Spanish and British press

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