Spatial metaphors in African‐American discourse

Leeman, Richard

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“…Mapping to the conceptualization of politics, “part-whole” schema is encoded in the construction of connection and interdependence in political discursive practise. Apart from the spatial constructions and metaphors that are often antagonistic and hegemonic (Leeman, 1995; Livio, 2015), there are spatial metaphors in political discourse through which collective identity is constructed and positive relationship fostered. Carney and Prasch (2017) investigate spatial metaphors in Nixon’s 1972 “Opening to China” rhetoric such as “journey for peace” “open the door” “bridge” “wall” “common ground,” and “close the gulf” and conclude that the alternative spatial conceptualization shifts presidential discourse from isolationism and containment toward inclusion and friendship.…”

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confidence: 99%

Can space be conceptualized in a different way in political discourse? An extended application of Discourse Space Theory

2023

Discourse & Society

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Political discourse can be considered as consisting of conflictual discourse and cooperative discourse in view of the relationship between power entities. From the perspective of spatial conceptualization in cognitive discourse analysis, cooperative discourse is supposed to be different from conflictual one in terms of the spatial representation, with Chilton’s Discourse Space Theory, which mainly conceptualizes space as an inside/outside dichotomy, only accounting for the latter instead of the former. This paper attempts to further apply Chilton’s three-dimensional model to involve the alternative way of spatial conceptualization with different kind of construals and to compare the differences of the two types of political discourse in the construction of discourse space. Taking the speeches by two state leaders for the purposes of cooperation and accusation respectively as the cases in point, this paper concludes that cooperative discourse displays an outward-extensive discourse space representation as opposed to the inward-contractive discourse space representation of conflictual discourse. This study contributes to expand the scope of discourse space analysis, which is primarily for antagonistic relations only, to incorporate cooperative relations with an extended application of DST based on alternative ways of spatial conceptualization and an elaboration on the dynamics of its three dimensions, and hence to shed some lights on political discourse studies.

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Section: Extended Application Of Dst For Discourse Space Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%