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Eine Kopie von Gottfried Sempers Dresdner Synagogen-Ampel – angefertigt für Cosima Wagner
Get PDFInmitten des europaweiten Sturms, den Richard Wagner mit seiner Publikation Das Judenthum in der Musik ausgelöst hatte, kam Cosima von Bülow, Geliebte und nachmalige Ehefrau Wagners, auf die Idee, eine Kopie einer Silberampel fertigen zu lassen. Gottfried Semper hatte diese für die Synagoge in Dresden (1838–1840) entworfen. Doch dem Unternehmen waren verschiedene Hindernisse gesetzt. Zum einen wollte Cosima von Bülow auf keinen Fall, dass diese Bestellung publik würde und hatte zu diesem Zweck Friedrich Nietzsche eingespannt. Dieser ersuchte in einem ersten Schritt Semper selbst um eine Zeichnung der Ampel. Doch es scheint, dass sich diese Zeichnung nicht für eine Ausführung eignete, so dass sich Nietzsche direkt nach Dresden wandte, wo jedoch auch die israelitische Gemeinde nicht behilflich sein konnte. Schliesslich wurde in Dresden direkt in Zeichner engagiert, der den Auftrag erhielt, die Ampel vor Ort zu kopieren. Auch der ursprüngliche Plan Cosimas, die Ampel in Dresden herstellen zu lassen, zerschlug sich, so dass dies in Luzern durch das Goldschmiedeatelier von Carl Bossard bewerkstelligt wurde. Ist nach dem Zweck des ganzen Unternehmens zu fragen, so kristallisiert sich heraus, dass Cosima die Silberampel für die Taufe ihres Sohnes Siegfried herstellen liess. Unehelich geboren, konnte er erst ein Jahr nach seiner Geburt getauft werden, da sich die Scheidung von Cosima so lange hinzog. Denn Siegfried konnte erst den Namen Wagner annehmen, als Cosima und Richard geheiratet hatten. Doch die Taufe wie auch die Herstellung der Synagogen-Ampel mussten so diskret wie möglich erfolgen, um jeglichen Skandal zu vermeiden. Sie fand im Landhaus Tribschen bei Luzern statt, wo Wagner seit 1866 wohnte und wo Cosima ihm ein Jahr später mit den beiden gemeinsamen Töchtern nachfolgte
Organized punishment: Organizations of the penal system as (criticized) instances of socialization and education
No full textForm und Funktion von Gefängnissen zielen auf den Strafvollzug und die Durchsetzung gesellschaftlicher Normalitätserwartungen. Indem Gefängnisse Individuen als Strafe für abweichendes Verhalten separieren, operationalisieren sie gesellschaftliches Sanktionspotenzial. Dies verknüpfen sie mit dem Ziel, durch organisationale Abläufe zu resozialisieren, also Jugendliche und Erwachsene durch die systematische päda- und andragogische Nachschulung nach der Straftat wieder gesellschaftsfähig zu machen. Der Beitrag diskutiert die Konfrontation des modernen Subjekts mit Logiken organisierten Strafens, die Organisationserziehung wie Organisationssozialisation initiieren. An der ausbleibenden oder unerwünschten pädagogischen Wirkung von Gefängnissen entzündet sich Kritik bezogen auf ihre (Il-)Legitimität. An Guantánamo Bay, als Beispiel für politische Gefangenschaft, zeigt der Beitrag, weshalb hier abweichende Maßstäbe gesellschaftlicher Normalitätserwartung an organisiertes Strafen angelegt werden. Das Verhältnis von Sozialisation, Erziehung und Strafe wird auf den Kontext von Organisation bezogen und hierüber die Notwendigkeit einer organisationssensiblen Sozialisations- und Strafforschung begründet.Form and function of prisons are designed to carry out punishment and enforce societal expectations of normality. By separating individuals as punishment for deviant behavior, prisons operationalize the societal potential for sanction. They combine this with the goal of resocialization through organizational processes, i.e. making juveniles and adults societally acceptable again after their offense through systematic educational retraining. The article discusses the confrontation of the modern subject with logics of organized punishment, which initiate organizational education and socialization. The lack of pedagogical effect of prisons ignites a critique of their (il-)legitimacy. In the case of Guantánamo Bay, as an example for political imprisonment, the article shows, how deviating standards of social expectations are applied to organized punishment. The relationship between socialization, education, and punishment is related to the context of modern organizations, and the need for organization-sensitive research on socialization and punishment, is justified
How to research religion? Global historical impulses for the discourse on religion in educational migration research
No full textEine machtsensible und anti-essentialistische Forschung im Schnittfeld von Migration und Religion muss sich kritisch mit den oftmals unhinterfragten Verständnissen der Begriffe auseinandersetzen, die den Forschungsprozess begleiten. In den vergangenen Jahren haben Vertreter*innen der globalgeschichtlich orientierten Religionsforschung methodologische und methodische Debatten angestoßen, die hierzu vielversprechende Perspektiven eröffnen. Das in diesem Zusammenhang entwickelte Forschungsprogramm ist prinzipiell auf alle analytischen Begriffe anwendbar und entfaltet somit auch jenseits der Religionswissenschaft seine Relevanz. Der vorliegende Beitrag setzt sich mit zentralen Positionen der globalgeschichtlichen Religionsforschung auseinander, mit dem Ziel, produktive Impulse für die erziehungswissenschaftliche Migrationsforschung zum Begriff Religion zu identifizieren. Dabei wird das Konzept des Religiösen Otherings aus Sicht der globalen Religionsgeschichte kritisch diskutiert und im Anschluss ein Ausblick gegeben, der aktuelle Entwicklungen zum Religionsdiskurs aufnimmt.Power-sensitive and anti-essentialist research at the intersection of migration and religion must critically examine the often unquestioned understandings of the terms that accompany the research process. In recent years, global history-oriented religious researchers have initiated methodological debates that open up promising perspectives in this regard. The research program developed in this context can be applied to all analytical terms and is therefore also relevant beyond the field of religious studies. This article deals with central positions of global-historical research on religion, with the aim of identifying productive impulses for educational research on the concept of religion. The concept of religious othering is critically discussed from the perspective of the global history of religion, followed by an outlook that takes up current developments within discourses on religion
Alice Ceresa. Lavoro, lingua e scrittura difficile
No full textIl contributo esplora l’opera di Alice Ceresa, autrice che, attraverso una scrittura frammentaria e ironica, interroga le radici linguistiche e culturali delle disuguaglianze di genere. Analizzando La figlia prodiga e il Piccolo dizionario dell’inuguaglianza femminile, il saggio mostra come Ceresa decostruisca convenzioni sociali e letterarie adottando uno sguardo distaccato e straniante. Particolare attenzione è rivolta al tema del lavoro, inteso su tre livelli: come guadagno materiale, come esercizio incessante di scrittura e riscrittura e come sforzo per elaborare una nuova lingua capace di sfidare le narrazioni patriarcali. In dialogo con il pensiero di Audre Lorde, Donna Haraway e Ursula K. Le Guin, il saggio propone una rilettura critica dei concetti di “lavoro” e “famiglia” come costruzioni culturali da disarticolare e da ripensare, nell’orizzonte di una lingua altra e di nuove forme di esistenza.
This paper examines the work of Alice Ceresa, a writer whose fragmented and ironic style interrogates the linguistic and cultural foundations of gender inequality. The analysis focuses on how, in works such as La figlia prodiga and Piccolo dizionario dell’inuguaglianza femminile, Ceresa dismantles social and literary conventions, adopting a detached and estranging perspective. Particular attention is given to the theme of work, explored on three levels: as material sustenance, as a relentless practice of writing and rewriting, and as an effort to craft a new language capable of challenging patriarchal narratives. By engaging with the ideas of Audre Lorde and Donna Haraway alongside Ursula K. Le Guin, the article offers a subversive reinterpretation of the concepts of “work” and “family” as cultural constructs to be deconstructed and redefined.
Von der unmöglichen Möglichkeit des Verstehens von Wundergeschichten: Die »Auferweckung bei Naïn« (Lk 7,11–17) als Beispiel
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The metaphorical extension of classifiers in TawrãMishmi: an exploration
No full textMany languages make use of a morphosyntactic system that imposes a classification on their nominal lexicon. While research on nominal classification that the semantics of the morphemes used in such classification systems is often shaped by paradigmatic and associative relations, less attention has been given to the semantic motivation behind their distribution. This article addresses that gap by exploring how metaphor, as conceptualized by Barcelona (2003a), can account for the semantic distribution of classificatory morphemes.
Drawing on data from the numeral classifier system of Tawrã, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India, the study examines two types of metaphorical extensions: (1) the interplay between cultural and biological domains, and (2) the use of body parts as mensural classifiers. In the first case, a botanical idiom is identified in which plant biology is metaphorically mapped onto aspects of human society and culture and vice versa. It is argued here that a cognition of the plant world has been part of human evolution. In the second case, body parts are used as mensural classifiers (e.g., one hand(ful) of rice). One explanation for this common metaphor is a cognitive and epistemological model based on the bodily experience that processes indistinctly the natural and the social world. This investigation proposes that cognitive, cultural and social factors are at play behind these metaphorical extensions in the semantic domain. Classifiers thus offer the possibility to follow the use of metaphors to both break down abstract images into concrete nouns and use cognitive resources available from classification to exploit patterns and similarities.Many languages make use of a morphosyntactic system that imposes a classification on their nominal lexicon. While research on nominal classification that the semantics of the morphemes used in such classification systems is often shaped by paradigmatic and associative relations, less attention has been given to the semantic motivation behind their distribution. This article addresses that gap by exploring how metaphor, as conceptualized by Barcelona (2003a), can account for the semantic distribution of classificatory morphemes.
Drawing on data from the numeral classifier system of Tawrã, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India, the study examines two types of metaphorical extensions: (1) the interplay between cultural and biological domains, and (2) the use of body parts as mensural classifiers. In the first case, a botanical idiom is identified in which plant biology is metaphorically mapped onto aspects of human society and culture and vice versa. It is argued here that a cognition of the plant world has been part of human evolution. In the second case, body parts are used as mensural classifiers (e.g., one hand(ful) of rice). One explanation for this common metaphor is a cognitive and epistemological model based on the bodily experience that processes indistinctly the natural and the social world. This investigation proposes that cognitive, cultural and social factors are at play behind these metaphorical extensions in the semantic domain. Classifiers thus offer the possibility to follow the use of metaphors to both break down abstract images into concrete nouns and use cognitive resources available from classification to exploit patterns and similarities.Many languages make use of a morphosyntactic system that imposes a classification on their nominal lexicon. While research on nominal classification that the semantics of the morphemes used in such classification systems is often shaped by paradigmatic and associative relations, less attention has been given to the semantic motivation behind their distribution. This article addresses that gap by exploring how metaphor, as conceptualized by Barcelona (2003a), can account for the semantic distribution of classificatory morphemes.
Drawing on data from the numeral classifier system of Tawrã, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India, the study examines two types of metaphorical extensions: (1) the interplay between cultural and biological domains, and (2) the use of body parts as mensural classifiers. In the first case, a botanical idiom is identified in which plant biology is metaphorically mapped onto aspects of human society and culture and vice versa. It is argued here that a cognition of the plant world has been part of human evolution. In the second case, body parts are used as mensural classifiers (e.g., one hand(ful) of rice). One explanation for this common metaphor is a cognitive and epistemological model based on the bodily experience that processes indistinctly the natural and the social world. This investigation proposes that cognitive, cultural and social factors are at play behind these metaphorical extensions in the semantic domain. Classifiers thus offer the possibility to follow the use of metaphors to both break down abstract images into concrete nouns and use cognitive resources available from classification to exploit patterns and similarities.Many languages make use of a morphosyntactic system that imposes a classification on their nominal lexicon. While research on nominal classification that the semantics of the morphemes used in such classification systems is often shaped by paradigmatic and associative relations, less attention has been given to the semantic motivation behind their distribution. This article addresses that gap by exploring how metaphor, as conceptualized by Barcelona (2003a), can account for the semantic distribution of classificatory morphemes.
Drawing on data from the numeral classifier system of Tawrã, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India, the study examines two types of metaphorical extensions: (1) the interplay between cultural and biological domains, and (2) the use of body parts as mensural classifiers. In the first case, a botanical idiom is identified in which plant biology is metaphorically mapped onto aspects of human society and culture and vice versa. It is argued here that a cognition of the plant world has been part of human evolution. In the second case, body parts are used as mensural classifiers (e.g., one hand(ful) of rice). One explanation for this common metaphor is a cognitive and epistemological model based on the bodily experience that processes indistinctly the natural and the social world. This investigation proposes that cognitive, cultural and social factors are at play behind these metaphorical extensions in the semantic domain. Classifiers thus offer the possibility to follow the use of metaphors to both break down abstract images into concrete nouns and use cognitive resources available from classification to exploit patterns and similarities.Muchas lenguas utilizan un sistema morfosintáctico que impone una clasificación sobre su léxico nominal. Aunque el estudio sobre la clasificación nominal ha demostrado que la semántica de los morfemas usados en estos sistemas suele estar moldeada por relaciones paradigmáticas y asociativas, ha habido menos atención en la motivación semántica detrás de tal distribución. Este artículo aborda esa laguna explorando cómo la metáfora, tal como la conceptualiza Barcelona (2003a), puede explicar la distribución semántica de los morfemas clasificatorios.
A partir de datos del sistema de clasificadores numerales del Tawrã, una lengua tibeto-birmana hablada en el noreste de la India, el estudio examina dos tipos de extensiones metafóricas: (1) la interacción entre los dominios cultural y biológico, y (2) el uso de partes del cuerpo como clasificadores mensurales. En el primer caso, se identifica un idioma botánico en el que la biología vegetal se proyecta metafóricamente sobre aspectos de la sociedad y la cultura humanas y viceversa. Se argumenta que la cognición del mundo vegetal ha formado parte de la evolución humana. En el segundo caso, partes del cuerpo son utilizadas como clasificadores mensurales (por ejemplo, una mano de arroz), lo cual refleja cómo la experiencia corporal fundamenta la conceptualización de medidas.
Este estudio sostiene que factores cognitivos, culturales y sociales están involucrados en estas extensiones metafóricas dentro del dominio semántico. Los clasificadores, por lo tanto, ofrecen una vía para observar cómo la metáfora permite tanto descomponer imágenes abstractas en sustantivos concretos como aprovechar los recursos cognitivos de la clasificación para explotar patrones y similitudes.Many languages make use of a morphosyntactic system that imposes a classification on their nominal lexicon. While research on nominal classification that the semantics of the morphemes used in such classification systems is often shaped by paradigmatic and associative relations, less attention has been given to the semantic motivation behind their distribution. This article addresses that gap by exploring how metaphor, as conceptualized by Barcelona (2003a), can account for the semantic distribution of classificatory morphemes.
Drawing on data from the numeral classifier system of Tawrã, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India, the study examines two types of metaphorical extensions: (1) the interplay between cultural and biological domains, and (2) the use of body parts as mensural classifiers. In the first case, a botanical idiom is identified in which plant biology is metaphorically mapped onto aspects of human society and culture and vice versa. It is argued here that a cognition of the plant world has been part of human evolution. In the second case, body parts are used as mensural classifiers (e.g., one hand(ful) of rice). One explanation for this common metaphor is a cognitive and epistemological model based on the bodily experience that processes indistinctly the natural and the social world. This investigation proposes that cognitive, cultural and social factors are at play behind these metaphorical extensions in the semantic domain. Classifiers thus offer the possibility to follow the use of metaphors to both break down abstract images into concrete nouns and use cognitive resources available from classification to exploit patterns and similarities.Many languages make use of a morphosyntactic system that imposes a classification on their nominal lexicon. While research on nominal classification that the semantics of the morphemes used in such classification systems is often shaped by paradigmatic and associative relations, less attention has been given to the semantic motivation behind their distribution. This article addresses that gap by exploring how metaphor, as conceptualized by Barcelona (2003a), can account for the semantic distribution of classificatory morphemes.
Drawing on data from the numeral classifier system of Tawrã, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India, the study examines two types of metaphorical extensions: (1) the interplay between cultural and biological domains, and (2) the use of body parts as mensural classifiers. In the first case, a botanical idiom is identified in which plant biology is metaphorically mapped onto aspects of human society and culture and vice versa. It is argued here that a cognition of the plant world has been part of human evolution. In the second case, body parts are used as mensural classifiers (e.g., one hand(ful) of rice). One explanation for this common metaphor is a cognitive and epistemological model based on the bodily experience that processes indistinctly the natural and the social world. This investigation proposes that cognitive, cultural and social factors are at play behind these metaphorical extensions in the semantic domain. Classifiers thus offer the possibility to follow the use of metaphors to both break down abstract images into concrete nouns and use cognitive resources available from classification to exploit patterns and similarities
Commenter c’est métaphoriser : les mappings conceptuels au cœur du commentaire footballistique
No full textThématique à forte portée interdisciplinaire, la métaphore connaît depuis les années 1980 un tournant paradigmatique majeur, passant d’une figure tropique cantonnée à une fonction ornementale et stylistique à un mécanisme cognitif et discursif fondamental, profondément enraciné dans l’expérience vécue, la pensée et le langage. Elle permet d’appréhender des abstractions complexes à travers des concepts concrets et familiers. Notre réflexion, inscrite dans un cadre cognitif multidimensionnel, explore des expressions métaphoriques françaises et arabes issues de retransmissions de deux matchs de football. Volontairement restreint en raison de la méthodologie qualitative adoptée, le corpus est analysé à la lumière du modèle de Lakoff et Johnson (1980) afin de montrer le rôle de la métaphore conceptuelle dans la structuration du discours sportif à partir d’autres domaines expérientiels. L’étude s’articule autour de la problématique suivante : en quoi les mappings métaphoriques participent-ils à la conceptualisation et à la mise en forme du commentaire footballistique ? L’objectif est de mettre en lumière la manière dont les correspondances systématiques entre domaines sources tels que la guerre, la vie, la mort ou la météorologie et le domaine cible du football contribuent à la construction du sens, à l’intensification du discours et à la création d’un imaginaire collectif du jeu, révélant ainsi la portée cognitive, discursive et culturelle de ces mécanismes. Les commentateurs y recourent massivement pour éviter la monotonie, enrichir leur narration et renforcer l’impact de leurs propos. L’analyse montre que les métaphores conceptuelles structurent le discours et expriment des représentations culturelles et sociales complexes, transposant l’expérience humaine dans l’univers footballistique.
A highly interdisciplinary topic, metaphor has undergone a major paradigm shift since the 1980s, evolving from a trope confined to ornamental and stylistic functions to a fundamental cognitive and discursive mechanism deeply rooted in lived experience, thought, and language. It allows us to grasp complex abstractions through concrete and familiar concepts. Our reflection, within a multidimensional cognitive framework, explores French and Arabic metaphorical expressions from broadcasts of two football matches. Deliberately limited due to the qualitative methodology adopted, the corpus is analyzed in light of Lakoff and Johnson\u27s (1980) model in order to show the role of conceptual metaphor in structuring sports discourse based on other experiential domains. The study revolves around the following question: how do metaphorical mappings contribute to the conceptualization and shaping of football commentary? The objective is to highlight how systematic correspondences between source domains such as war, life, death, or meteorology and the target domain of soccer contribute to the construction of meaning, the intensification of discourse, and the creation of a collective imagination of the game, thus revealing the cognitive, discursive, and cultural significance of these mechanisms. Commentators make extensive use of metaphorical language to avoid monotony, enrich their narration, and reinforce the impact of their words. The analysis reveals that conceptual metaphors structure football discourse by projecting complex cultural and social representations onto it. They are not simply a play on words but reflect a mental structure that allows us to think about and feel the sport through images drawn from other spheres of human experience.A highly interdisciplinary topic, metaphor has undergone a major paradigm shift since the 1980s, evolving from a trope confined to ornamental and stylistic functions to a fundamental cognitive and discursive mechanism deeply rooted in lived experience, thought, and language. It allows us to grasp complex abstractions through concrete and familiar concepts. Our reflection, within a multidimensional cognitive framework, explores French and Arabic metaphorical expressions from broadcasts of two football matches. Deliberately limited due to the qualitative methodology adopted, the corpus is analyzed in light of Lakoff and Johnson\u27s (1980) model in order to show the role of conceptual metaphor in structuring sports discourse based on other experiential domains. The study revolves around the following question: how do metaphorical mappings contribute to the conceptualization and shaping of football commentary? The objective is to highlight how systematic correspondences between source domains such as war, life, death, or meteorology and the target domain of soccer contribute to the construction of meaning, the intensification of discourse, and the creation of a collective imagination of the game, thus revealing the cognitive, discursive, and cultural significance of these mechanisms. Commentators make extensive use of metaphorical language to avoid monotony, enrich their narration, and reinforce the impact of their words. The analysis reveals that conceptual metaphors structure football discourse by projecting complex cultural and social representations onto it. They are not simply a play on words but reflect a mental structure that allows us to think about and feel the sport through images drawn from other spheres of human experience.A highly interdisciplinary topic, metaphor has undergone a major paradigm shift since the 1980s, evolving from a trope confined to ornamental and stylistic functions to a fundamental cognitive and discursive mechanism deeply rooted in lived experience, thought, and language. It allows us to grasp complex abstractions through concrete and familiar concepts. Our reflection, within a multidimensional cognitive framework, explores French and Arabic metaphorical expressions from broadcasts of two football matches. Deliberately limited due to the qualitative methodology adopted, the corpus is analyzed in light of Lakoff and Johnson\u27s (1980) model in order to show the role of conceptual metaphor in structuring sports discourse based on other experiential domains. The study revolves around the following question: how do metaphorical mappings contribute to the conceptualization and shaping of football commentary? The objective is to highlight how systematic correspondences between source domains such as war, life, death, or meteorology and the target domain of soccer contribute to the construction of meaning, the intensification of discourse, and the creation of a collective imagination of the game, thus revealing the cognitive, discursive, and cultural significance of these mechanisms. Commentators make extensive use of metaphorical language to avoid monotony, enrich their narration, and reinforce the impact of their words. The analysis reveals that conceptual metaphors structure football discourse by projecting complex cultural and social representations onto it. They are not simply a play on words but reflect a mental structure that allows us to think about and feel the sport through images drawn from other spheres of human experience.A highly interdisciplinary topic, metaphor has undergone a major paradigm shift since the 1980s, evolving from a trope confined to ornamental and stylistic functions to a fundamental cognitive and discursive mechanism deeply rooted in lived experience, thought, and language. It allows us to grasp complex abstractions through concrete and familiar concepts. Our reflection, within a multidimensional cognitive framework, explores French and Arabic metaphorical expressions from broadcasts of two football matches. Deliberately limited due to the qualitative methodology adopted, the corpus is analyzed in light of Lakoff and Johnson\u27s (1980) model in order to show the role of conceptual metaphor in structuring sports discourse based on other experiential domains. The study revolves around the following question: how do metaphorical mappings contribute to the conceptualization and shaping of football commentary? The objective is to highlight how systematic correspondences between source domains such as war, life, death, or meteorology and the target domain of soccer contribute to the construction of meaning, the intensification of discourse, and the creation of a collective imagination of the game, thus revealing the cognitive, discursive, and cultural significance of these mechanisms. Commentators make extensive use of metaphorical language to avoid monotony, enrich their narration, and reinforce the impact of their words. The analysis reveals that conceptual metaphors structure football discourse by projecting complex cultural and social representations onto it. They are not simply a play on words but reflect a mental structure that allows us to think about and feel the sport through images drawn from other spheres of human experience.A highly interdisciplinary topic, metaphor has undergone a major paradigm shift since the 1980s, evolving from a trope confined to ornamental and stylistic functions to a fundamental cognitive and discursive mechanism deeply rooted in lived experience, thought, and language. It allows us to grasp complex abstractions through concrete and familiar concepts. Our reflection, within a multidimensional cognitive framework, explores French and Arabic metaphorical expressions from broadcasts of two football matches. Deliberately limited due to the qualitative methodology adopted, the corpus is analyzed in light of Lakoff and Johnson\u27s (1980) model in order to show the role of conceptual metaphor in structuring sports discourse based on other experiential domains. The study revolves around the following question: how do metaphorical mappings contribute to the conceptualization and shaping of football commentary? The objective is to highlight how systematic correspondences between source domains such as war, life, death, or meteorology and the target domain of soccer contribute to the construction of meaning, the intensification of discourse, and the creation of a collective imagination of the game, thus revealing the cognitive, discursive, and cultural significance of these mechanisms. Commentators make extensive use of metaphorical language to avoid monotony, enrich their narration, and reinforce the impact of their words. The analysis reveals that conceptual metaphors structure football discourse by projecting complex cultural and social representations onto it. They are not simply a play on words but reflect a mental structure that allows us to think about and feel the sport through images drawn from other spheres of human experience.A highly interdisciplinary topic, metaphor has undergone a major paradigm shift since the 1980s, evolving from a trope confined to ornamental and stylistic functions to a fundamental cognitive and discursive mechanism deeply rooted in lived experience, thought, and language. It allows us to grasp complex abstractions through concrete and familiar concepts. Our reflection, within a multidimensional cognitive framework, explores French and Arabic metaphorical expressions from broadcasts of two football matches. Deliberately limited due to the qualitative methodology adopted, the corpus is analyzed in light of Lakoff and Johnson\u27s (1980) model in order to show the role of conceptual metaphor in structuring sports discourse based on other experiential domains. The study revolves around the following question: how do metaphorical mappings contribute to the conceptualization and shaping of football commentary? The objective is to highlight how systematic correspondences between source domains such as war, life, death, or meteorology and the target domain of soccer contribute to the construction of meaning, the intensification of discourse, and the creation of a collective imagination of the game, thus revealing the cognitive, discursive, and cultural significance of these mechanisms. Commentators make extensive use of metaphorical language to avoid monotony, enrich their narration, and reinforce the impact of their words. The analysis reveals that conceptual metaphors structure football discourse by projecting complex cultural and social representations onto it. They are not simply a play on words but reflect a mental structure that allows us to think about and feel the sport through images drawn from other spheres of human experience
Harald Thun (1945–2025): un obituario académico sobre sus aportes a la geolingüística pluridimensional y a la historiografía lingüística
No full textStockTwits: Comprehensive records of a financial social media platform from 2008 to 2022
No full textThis paper describes and characterizes the relationship between social media and financial markets, focusing on two key questions: (1) Do users of financial social media perform better than guessing at predicting stock movements? (2) When do users in the aggregate perform better than guessing at the same task? To study these questions, we introduce the first publicly available, comprehensive dataset of posts on a social media platform: StockTwits. StockTwits is a financial social media platform where more than 7 million active users have discussed financial markets and investing strategies across over 550 million posts since 2008. We provide a complete record of all StockTwits posts up to 2022, including the poster\u27s anonymous ID, the text and timestamp of the message, and whether the user tagged their post as optimistic ("bullish") or pessimistic ("bearish"). We study the temporal dynamics of this dataset, analyzing it at both the ticker level and the user level. First, we find that while most users perform approximately at a guessing rate, a significant percentage consistently perform statistically better or worse than guessing, especially at longer timescales. Second, corroborating existing literature, we observe that attention — as measured by the number of messages mentioning a stock — is generally less predictive than sentiment. However, there is meaningful variation across securities and over time. Some stocks are best predicted by attention, others by sentiment, and some stocks by each at different times