Thinking by metaphor, fast and slow: Deliberate Metaphor Theory offers a new model for metaphor and its comprehension [PDF]
The immense increase in metaphor theory and research over the past decades is posing a threat of fragmentation to the field, which has been responded to by calls for new and more encompassing approaches to virtually all aspects metaphorical. This article
Gérard J Steen
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Applying MIPVU (Steen et al., 2010) to the corpus of media articles about the European migrant crisis in the period from August 2015 until March 2016 in English and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, this paper analyzes the IMMIGRANTS ARE ANIMALS metaphor within ...
Mersina Mujagic
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“That’s the Metaphor You’re Going for?” Deliberate Metaphor and Humor [PDF]
This paper aims at discussing the function of deliberate metaphors in humorous narratives due to the similarities in mechanisms underlying both elements of language.
Wawrzyniuk Justyna
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The relevance of metaphor in argumentation. Uniting pragma-dialectics and deliberate metaphor theory
Abstract Argumentative discussions can contain various types of metaphor, but these do not all fulfil the same function in discourse: while some seem to express part of the argumentation, others seem to be irrelevant. So far, argumentation research has not explained when metaphors should be considered relevant for argumentation.
Lotte Van Poppel
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Deliberate Metaphor Affords Conscious Metaphorical Cognition
Abstract Contrary to what is assumed in Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), the conceptual power of metaphor may not lie in its widespread unconscious use but in its more limited and targeted deliberate use, which may or may not give rise to conscious metaphorical cognition.
G. Steen
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Cross-cultural variation in deliberate metaphor interpretation [PDF]
The distinction between ‘deliberate’ and ‘non deliberate’ metaphors has been developed within a five-step framework (Steen) of metaphor production. Deliberate metaphors invite the addressee to pay special attention to their cross-domain structure mapping rather than focusing primarily on the topical proposition.
Andreas Musolff
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Metaphor in communication: the distribution of potentially deliberate metaphor across register and word class [PDF]
There is renewed interest in the special role that metaphor can have in its communicative status as metaphor between language users. This paper investigates the occurrence of such deliberate metaphors in comparison with non-deliberate metaphors. To this end, a corpus of 24,762 metaphors was analysed for the presence of potentially deliberate (versus ...
Reijnierse, W.G. +3 more
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Von der Conceptual Metaphor Theory zur Deliberate Metaphor Theory
Der vorliegende Beitrag bietet einen Überblick über zwei Metapherntheorien, die für die linguistische Metaphernanalyse als wichtige Beschreibungsrahmen gelten. Zunächst wird der einflussreiche Ansatz von Lakoff und Johnson (1980), die Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) mit ihren wichtigsten Grundannahmen dargestellt.
Elisabeth Putterer
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The role of co-text in the analysis of potentially deliberate metaphor
Taking Deliberate Metaphor Theory (Steen, 2015) as a starting point, this chapter investigates the way in which co-text influences the identification and analysis of potentially deliberate metaphor in discourse.
Christian Burgers +2 more
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DMIP: A Method for Identifying Potentially Deliberate Metaphor in Language Use
This paper introduces the Deliberate Metaphor Identification Procedure (DMIP), a method for the systematic and reliable identification of potentially deliberate metaphor in language use.
Christian Burgers +2 more
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