Researching political metaphor cross-culturally: English, Hungarian, Greek and Turkish L1-based interpretations of the Nation as Body metaphor

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Musolff, Andreas (2021) Researching political metaphor cross-culturally: English, Hungarian, Greek and Turkish L1-based interpretations of the Nation as Body metaphor. Journal of Pragmatics, 183. pp. 121-131. ISSN 0378-2166

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Abstract

One of the key-metaphor complexes in conceptualizing national identity is that of the nation as a body or a person. It has had a long intellectual history and still figures in present-day international political discourses. But is it therefore also universally and/or uniformly understood? Evidence from an international metaphor interpretation survey conducted in 30 countries suggests that the elicited interpretations share basic common features but also vary in relation to culture- and/or nation-specific discourse traditions. To capture these aspects, we introduce the analytical tool of “scenario analysis” and compare four L1-based samples of survey data that show characteristic differences between interpretation trends. As a result, we argue in favour of a stronger recognition of culture-specific and pragmatic aspects in metaphor understanding.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	cross-cultural pragmatics,irony,metaphor,metonymy,universal vs. relative,variation,language and linguistics,linguistics and language,artificial intelligence ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1203
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Language and Communication Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Area Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Heritage and History Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Migration Research Network
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	10 Aug 2021 01:28
Last Modified:	21 Jul 2023 09:57
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/81029
DOI:	10.1016/j.pragma.2021.07.011

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