Metaphors in German newspaper articles on multidrug-resistant bacteria in clinical contexts, 1995–2015
| Autor: | Joachim Peters, Maria Heckel, Mechthild Habermann, Natalie Dykes, Christoph Ostgathe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Persuasion Metaphor media_common.quotation_subject Discourse analysis 05 social sciences Context (language use) 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Linguistics language.human_language Argumentation theory Newspaper German language 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology Knowledge transfer media_common |
| Zdroj: | Metaphor and the Social World. 9:221-241 |
| ISSN: | 2210-4097 2210-4070 |
| Popis: | The study investigates the usage of metaphorical structures in the German press discourse on multi-resistant pathogens in the clinical context by applying methods of qualitative discourse analysis to a corpus of 900 newspaper and magazine articles published between 1995–2015. The study shows that metaphors are of key importance for the processes of knowledge transfer, emotion production and persuasion. Metaphors are assigned to one of three general principles (mechanising explanation patterns, gain and loss of control, agentivity and personification) and to seven dominant source domains which structure the discourse through frequent argumentation structures: war, economy, space, machines, water, police and crime, sports and games. The occurrence of metaphor is – as previous research in other areas has shown – universal to all examined press texts; variation is limited to the thematic focus of individual argumentation structures between the different texts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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