Performing Critical Metaphor Analysis in a Conceptual Integration Framework

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-36
Author(s):  
Stefanie Ullmann
Keyword(s):  
Metaphor Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Integration ◽  
Integration Framework ◽  
Critical Metaphor Analysis

Conceptual metaphor and media bias: a critical metaphor analysis of British and American mainstream media reports on the Hong Kong riots

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-339
Author(s):  
Xuan Ji
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Media Bias ◽  
Metaphor Analysis ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Critical Metaphor Analysis ◽  
Media Reports

Abstract This article makes a comparative analysis of the use of metaphors in the Hong Kong riot reports by British and American mainstream media. The analysis reveals the conceptualization process of events and finds that the use of metaphors is mainly concentrated in the war domain, the flare domain, and the natural forces domain.

Brexit and the Myth of Grandeur

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alma-Pierre Bonnet
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Metaphor Analysis ◽  
European Project ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Critical Metaphor Analysis ◽  
Political Ground

The decision by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union came as a shock to many. A key player during the referendum campaign was the Vote Leave organisation which managed to convince people that they would be better off outside the European project. Their success was made all the easier as Euroscepticism had been running deep in the country for decades. It is on this fertile ground that Vote Leavers drew to persuade people of the necessity to leave. Using critical metaphor analysis, this paper examines the way Vote Leavers won the argument by developing three political myths, which, once combined, conjured up the notion of British grandeur. Drawing on Jonathan Charteris-Black’s seminal works on the relation between metaphors and the creation of political myths in political rhetoric, this paper posits that the Brexit debate was not won solely on political ground and that the manipulative power of metaphors may have also been a key element. This might explain the current political deadlock, as political solutions might not provide the answers to the questions raised during the campaign.

A Risk Integration Framework for the Service-Oriented Enterprise

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-153
Author(s):  
Eric Grandry ◽  
Christophe Feltus ◽  
Eric Dubois
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Conceptual Integration ◽  
Integration Framework ◽  
Management Domain ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Architecture Management

Enterprise architecture management provides the mechanism for governing enterprise transformations required by changes in the environment. In this article, the authors focus on changes that result from the analysis of information system risks and of their impacts on the services delivered by the enterprise. The authors present how the concepts of an information system risks management domain can be integrated into the ArchiMate enterprise architecture modelling language. This article approaches the conceptual integration in two design cycles: first, this article will consider information security risks, and then the authors generalize to information system risks. Additionally, the authors illustrate the application of the proposed approach and demonstrate the benefits of the integrated model through the handling of a case study, first in the domain of information security, and then in the domain of information privacy. The generalized risk-oriented EA model leads to a risk integration framework for the service-oriented enterprise.

A corpus-based study of metaphors used to describe Syrian refugees in Jordanian politico-economic discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 640-663
Author(s):  
Aseel Zibin
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Metaphor Analysis ◽  
Economic Discourse ◽  
Critical Metaphor Analysis ◽  
Internal Struggle ◽  
The One

Abstract This study aims to examine the metaphors used to describe Syrian refugees in Jordanian politico-economic discourse, adopting a Critical Metaphor Analysis Approach for data analysis. I compiled a specialised corpus containing political and economic articles from two daily Jordanian newspapers. The data was analysed using WordSmith Tools (Scott 2012), which is compatible with Arabic data. The data analysis reveals that several metaphors are used to describe Syrian refugees in Jordanian politico-economic discourse. The majority of metaphors employed have negative connotations in the contexts in which they are used, especially in the years 2015 and 2016 compared with 2012. The metaphors used reflect the internal struggle of Jordanians in relation to whether Syrian refugees should stay or leave. The struggle stems from deeply-entrenched Arab traditions, which make receiving guests perceived as a duty on the one hand, and the economic struggle of Jordanians living in a fragile economy, on the other.

Ideology, metaphor and persuasion in times of elections: a corpus-based study of British and Spanish economic reports

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 223-246
Author(s):  
María Muelas Gil
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Metaphor Analysis ◽  
The Press ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Critical Metaphor Analysis ◽  
The Media ◽  
Spanish Press ◽  
The Guardian

Metaphor has been studied as a pervasive and intrinsic discourse tool over the last decades in many different types of discourse (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Semino 2008, Kövecses 2010, etc.). Considering the strong effect it has on the discourse participants and how it can persuade them towards one side, action, or thought (Charteris-Black 2004, Silaski 2012), it is necessary to study it when the timeframe and the discourse where it is used are ideologically loaded. Based on recent studies on metaphor in economics (Alejo 2010, Herrera-Soler and White 2012, Soares da Silva et al. 2017), metaphor in the press (Koller 2004/2008) and metaphor and ideology (Goatly 2007, Silaski 2012), this article presents a corpus-based study of metaphor in reports of economic affairs in the English and Spanish press during the pre-election week of 2015. The corpus (about 160,000 words) consists of reports published by six newspapers that support different political spheres (left, centre and right): The Guardian, The Independent and The Telegraph in English, and Público, El País and ABC in Spanish. From a Critical Metaphor Analysis perspective (Charteris-Black 2004), the study starts from the hypothesis that the political stand of each newspaper might condition the metaphors. Indeed, metaphors pointing at certain side of political spheres appear in all the sub-corpora of the study, but in distinctive ways, as will be shown. In any case, critical factors such as cognitive and cultural reasons beyond the political stand of the media in question need to be acknowledged as well, which conveys further and more comprehensive analyses.

scholarly journals Rethinking Critical Metaphor Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Li
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Metaphor Analysis ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
Critical Metaphor Analysis ◽  
Research Findings

<p>Critical Metaphor Analysis is concerned with integrating critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, pragmatics and cognitive linguistics to explore implicit speaker intentions and covert power relations through the analysis of metaphoric expressions. CMA has been a meaningful enrichment of both Critical Discourse Analysis and Conceptual Metaphor Theory. This paper aims to give an overview of the formation of CMA, the research findings, the existing problems and the possible solutions.</p>

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of War Metaphors in COVID-19 Reports in New York Times and China Daily

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 86-91
Author(s):  
Yanmei Xiao
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Economic Sector ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Metaphor Analysis ◽  
Critical Metaphor Analysis ◽  
Trade War ◽  
The Impact ◽  
China Daily

This paper analyzed the use of war metaphors in COVID-19 news reported by the New York Times (NYT) in comparison to the China Daily from the 1st of February 2020 to the 29th of February 2020. Based on self-selected corpus from these two newspapers, a study was conducted to compare the contrasting lexis between NYT and China Daily, as well as to analyze the reasons for their differences using the Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA). It was found that China Daily preferred using war metaphors in COVID-19 reports and war-related words such as “fight,” “combat,” and “battle.” These words appeared frequently which demonstrated that Chinese people were fighting against the pandemic. However, these words were far less used in the NYT reports compared to China Daily and the use of these words were more related to the election, trade war, etc. This reflected their focus which was more on the impact of COVID-19 on politics and the economic sector.

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