Walls block waves: Using an inundation metaphor of immigration predicts support for a border wall
| Autor: | Jamie Arndt, Tyler Jimenez, Mark J. Landau |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Political psychology Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology Metaphor social media media_common.quotation_subject Immigration Literal and figurative language 050105 experimental psychology Politics Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Social media Sociology inundation metaphor Applied Psychology media_common Presidential system 05 social sciences conceptual metaphor Conceptual metaphor BF1-990 border wall political psychology Social psychology immigration |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Social and Political Psychology, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 159-171 (2021) Journal of Social and Political Psychology; Vol. 9 No. 1 (2021); 159-171 |
| ISSN: | 2195-3325 |
| DOI: | 10.5964/jspp.6383 |
| Popis: | From early 20th century headlines to presidential tweets, immigration is described frequently in terms of waves, floods, and tides. Although usage of this inundation metaphor has been widely documented, its potential influence on immigration attitudes has not been assessed empirically. Building from conceptual metaphor theory’s claim that abstract ideas can be grounded in simpler, concrete concepts, we hypothesized that using the inundation metaphor to understand immigration contributes to support for a U.S.—Mexico border wall as a figurative means to block immigrants. Accordingly, social media posts supporting a border wall contained more inundation-metaphoric expressions than messages opposing a wall and messages opposing immigration without reference to a wall (Study 1; N = 4,067). Converging experimental tests show, when controlling for political attitudes, exposure to the inundation metaphor increases support for a border wall (Studies 2a and 2b; N = 737). These findings add to the growing body of evidence that political cognition and policy attitudes are partly motivated by metaphoric comparisons to concrete ideas that are irrelevant in a literal sense. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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