Moving beyond metaphor in the cognitive linguistic approach to CDA

Hart, Christopher

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“…Metonymy is when one thing stands for another thing to which it is related or closely associated (e.g., The White House stands for the government officials working there).Metonymy also functions as a way of highlighting or backgrounding certain aspects of an event, action, or person (Hart, 2011). Although metonymy and metaphor are different (and metonymy has been largely ignored in the past), they both affect and shape public opinion about issues and are both important.…”

Section: Metaphor and Metonymy In Critical Multimodal Studiesmentioning

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When Children Are Water: Representation of Central American Migrant Children in Public Discourse and Implications for Educators

Catalano

2017

Journal of Latinos and Education

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Section: Metaphor and Metonymy In Critical Multimodal Studiesmentioning

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When Children Are Water: Representation of Central American Migrant Children in Public Discourse and Implications for Educators

Catalano

2017

Journal of Latinos and Education

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“…Functional Grammar (or SFR) provided the theoretical groundwork of CL and CDA (Wodak, 2001;Chilton, 2005;Hart, 2011). In this regard, Wodak (2001) argues that "systematic grammatical devices function in establishing, manipulating and naturalizing social hierarchies" (p. 6).…”

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“…In this regard, and based on Chilton's (2004) thoughts, Hart (2011) states that "representations only get reproduced and retained in memory as ideologies when they are accepted by textconsumers as real" (p. 84). Indeed, text-producers highlight their conception of what is considered as real theory via the modal system (Chilton, 2004;Hart, 2011).…”

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A Socio-cognitive Approach to Factive Presupposition and Epistemic Modality in Hillary Clinton's Political Discourse: Tunisia's Democratic Transition as a Case Study

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Zheni²

2018

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Abstract:Since political discourse portrays politicians' knowledge state and their ideological assumptions, a critical analysis of Clinton's speeches may unveil her perceptual and conceptual worlds. More specifically, critical discourse analysis may uncover her mental representations about the Tunisian Revolution and the US attitude towards such an important political event in North Africa and the Middle East. Studying factive presupposition and epistemic modality seems to be an effective pragmatic tool to reveal what is presented as factual and ideological knowledge in political discourse. The research instrument used to work out the frequency distribution of these lexical features is the latest version of 'AntConc' software. To uncover the epistemic state of Hillary Clinton, van Dijk's (1995b) socio-cognitive approach, mainly discourse-cognition-society paradigm, is applied to analyze her speeches between January 2011 and December 2012. At the discourse level, research findings reveal that factive presupposition, epistemic modality and evidential verbs unveil the speaker's strong personal commitment to the truth value of her propositions. At the cognitive level, results show that the speaker's personal and social values, attitudes, ideologies and knowledge unmask her mental mapping of Tunisia, democracy and human rights. It also uncovers the cognitive mechanisms that govern discourse production and understanding via ICMs, cognitive frames, mental models and context models. At the social level, research demonstrates that Clinton's perceptual and conceptual worlds are based on a dichotomy that involves 'WE', or democracies Vs. 'THEY' or the enemies of democracy, hence a dual vision of the world or polarization. This research bridges the lack of research combining epistemic presupposition, epistemic modality and evidentiality within a socio-cognitive framework democracy and human rights. It also uncovers the cognitive mechanisms that govern discourse production and understanding via ICMs, cognitive frames, mental models and context models. At the social level, research demonstrates that Clinton's perceptual and conceptual worlds are based on a dichotomy that involves 'WE', or democracies Vs.'THEY' or the enemies of democracy, hence a dual vision of the world or polarization. This research bridges the lack of research combining epistemic presupposition, epistemic modality and evidentiality within a socio-cognitive framework.

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“…Therefore, the application of cognition-oriented conceptual metonymy into discourse analysis should be related with CDA. Hart (2011) also analyses the functions of conceptual metonymy in CDA. On the other hand, CMA can serve as another support.…”

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“…Studies in this field can be subdivided into three parts: 1) the basic mechanism of metonymy, including such parameters as ideational cognitive model (ICM), contiguity, script, schema, cognitive domain, conceptualization, logic, etc. ; 2) the analyses of words, suntax, semantic meaning, pragmatic meaning, text from the perspective of metonymy; 3) the interpretation of metonymy from multi-perspectives, including critical discourse analysis (CDA) (Hart, 2011), relevance theory (Jiang, 2011), philosophy (K. Li & S. K. Li, 2012), corpus linguistics (Stefanowwitsch, 2006), etc. In this study, we are to introduce a new perspective to analyze metonymy, namely, rhetorical criticism, together with such subsidiary theories as terministic screen, rhetorical situation, rhetorical motive, ideology, identification.…”

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Towards a Model of Rhetorical Criticism of Metonymy in Chinese Media Texts

Shu-kang

2015

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Rhetorical criticism is a type of criticism with rhetorical phenomena as its object. In the context of western rhetoric, rhetorical criticism is usually viewed as a method to describe, explain and evaluate certain rhetorical phenomena or act. Metonymy, as a kind of rhetorical device in traditional rhetoric and a cognitive tool in cognitive linguistics, can be regarded as an object for criticism. Accordingly, an analysis of metonymy from the perspective of rhetorical criticism can disclose text builders' rhetorical motive behind the linguistic use of metonymy. Moreover, it can reveal the ideological meaning of the text (a weak version of ideology) by analyzing and evaluating the terministic screen constructed by the metonymy, to achieve the purpose of rhetorical persuasion and build an "identification" between the addresser and addressee.

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Moving beyond metaphor in the cognitive linguistic approach to CDA

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When Children Are Water: Representation of Central American Migrant Children in Public Discourse and Implications for Educators

When Children Are Water: Representation of Central American Migrant Children in Public Discourse and Implications for Educators

A Socio-cognitive Approach to Factive Presupposition and Epistemic Modality in Hillary Clinton's Political Discourse: Tunisia's Democratic Transition as a Case Study

Towards a Model of Rhetorical Criticism of Metonymy in Chinese Media Texts

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