Metaphor clusters in discourse

Cameron, Lynne; Stelma, Juup

doi:10.1558/japl.2004.1.2.107

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“…1 Other research has been dedicated to the discursive specifics of metaphor, based on manually coded and closely analyzed smaller corpora (e.g., Schmitt, 1995). This may involve the use of commercially available qualitative annotation tools (Gugutzer, 2002, p. 156ff) or purpose-tailored tools such as VisDis (Cameron & Stelma, 2004). As a net outcome, discourse approaches have rectified too narrow or over-generalizing claims that have dominated cognitive linguistics for some time.…”

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“…After selecting the material for the corpus, the researcher's first task is to delineate her field and decide "do I study metaphors on all topics [= target domains] or only some?" Some studies endeavor to capture metaphors of whatever target domain, for instance because they take metaphor density in the broadest sense as an indicator of "hot spots" in discourse (Cameron & Stelma, 2004). With this strategy targets are discovered in an exclusively bottom-up fashion.…”

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“…Retrieving metaphor sets that manifest a shared logic amounts to studying discourse coherence across a corpus. By contrast, in a cohesion-based analysis we probe for textual adjacency patterns between metaphors, for example to identify metaphor bursts (Cameron & Stelma, 2004;Corts, 2006), to explore interaction types of cohesive metaphors (Goatly, 1997, ch.9) or to study cohesion devices that link metaphors in the same sentence or argument (Kimmel, 2009b, 4.3). With the appropriate software one can also combine both perspectives.…”

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“…A second option for researchers with programming skills is to develop specialized software such as VisDis, a software package developed and used by Lynne Cameron earlier. This caters to special research needs, such as metaphor distribution plots, tracking of ontological metaphor types, and other measures that capture the dynamics of metaphor in discourse (see Cameron & Stelma, 2004). A third option is to work with tools like elan, which the Max Planck Institute Nijmegen designed for combined video and audio coding (Hellwig et al, 2010).…”

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Optimizing the analysis of metaphor in discourse

Kimmel

2012

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This article presents a software-based methodology for studying metaphor in discourse, mainly within the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). Despite a welcome recent swing towards methodological reflexivity, a detailed explication of the pros and cons of different procedures is still in order as far as qualitative research (i.e. a context-sensitive manual coding of a text corpus) is concerned. Qualitatively oriented scholars have to make difficult decisions revolving around the general research design, the transfer of linguistic theory into method, good workflow management, and the aimed at scope of analysis. My first task is to pinpoint typical tasks and demonstrate how they are optimally dealt with by using qualitative annotation software like ATLAS.ti. Software not only streamlines metaphor tagging itself, it systematizes the interpretive work from grouping text items into systematic/conceptual metaphor sets, via data surveys and checks, to quantitative comparisons and a cohesion-based analysis. My second task is to illustrate how a good research design can provide a step-wise procedure, offer systematic validation checks, keep the code system slim and many analytic options open. When we aim at complex data searches and want to handle high metaphor diversity I recommend compositional coding, i.e. tagging source and target domains separately (instead of adopting a "one mapping-one code" strategy). Furthermore, by tagging metaphors for imageschematic and rich semantic source domains in parallel, i.e. two-tier coding, we get multiple options for grouping metaphors into systematic sets.

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2012

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“…Apart from the evaluative function, textual manifestations of metaphoric expressions are also realized by the notion of "recurrence" following (Cameron & Stelma, 2004;Goatly, 1997) by which the different linguistic metaphors above draw from the only source domain of pathology. So, these concrete diseases do portray various forms of the SHAME of corruption such as cronyism, self-interest, nepotism, tribalism and so on.…”

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Figuring the Shame of Corruption in Jordanian Sociopolitical Discourse through a Range of Creative Metaphorical Scenarios

Albtoush¹,

Sahuri²

2017

ELLS

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Using the tenets of the Cognitive Metaphor Theory (CMT) and the pragmatic approach of the Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA), this paper investigates a variety of novel metaphoric scenarios targeting the conceptualization of the abstract concept of corruption in Jordanian sociopolitical discourse. My central argument is that by employing a range of conceptual domains to elicit a strong visceral reaction in his readership, the columnist Ahmad Hasan Al-Zu'bi connects the conceptual domain of CORRUPTION back to the equally abstract (but also deeply felt) conceptual domain of SHAME as the embedded running theme in the data under investigation. Unlike the corresponding model, which is primarily concerned with mapping elements from the source domain onto the target counterpart, these scenarios provide us with mini-narratives or storylines, shedding more light on the concept of SHAME which is crystallized through the diverse source domains utilized in the columnist's writings. The study is based on the analysis of 19 extracts taken from the writings of a popular Jordanian columnist Ahmad Hasan Al-Zu'bi in his well-known website Sawalief.com. Two main research questions are raised in this paper: 1. What types of creative metaphoric scenarios are used to frame the abstract target concept of corruption? 2. Why are these particular creative metaphors exploited in the conceptualization of the problem of corruption? Findings of the study reveal that the creative power of these metaphoric scenarios does highlight and connect back to a powerful and emotionally resonant emotion that is important in traditional Jordanian society: SHAME.

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Talking and doing trust in community relations

Jackson¹

2013

Discourses of Trust

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Metaphor clusters in discourse

Cited by 69 publications

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Optimizing the analysis of metaphor in discourse

Optimizing the analysis of metaphor in discourse

Figuring the Shame of Corruption in Jordanian Sociopolitical Discourse through a Range of Creative Metaphorical Scenarios

Talking and doing trust in community relations

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