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Language aggression in public debates on immigration Benjamins current topics ;, v. 102./ edited by Andreas Musolff, University of East Anglia.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.The global rise in the number, size and complexity of migration flows has not only resulted in an unprecedented flurry of debates and negotiations about how to deal with it through economic, social, and military policies but also in a huge increase in racist and xenophobic language use and discriminatory discourse. The expression of aggression and hatred in (anti-)immigration debates and its relationship to racism and its pseudo-justification lie at the center of this volume.00Its seven main contributions provide exemplary analyses of European and US debates that instrumentalize anti-immigrant attitudes: on the one hand among far-right populists in Cyprus, in Serbian and Croatian nationalism, and in the Hungarian government?s attempts at legitimizing immigration exclusion, and on the other hand in discourses associated with US-president Trump and his followers, including racists? tactical denial of racism. Methodologically, all studies pursue corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis, with foci on lexical, figurative, argumentative and discourse-historical patterns. Together, they show the convergence of populist polemic strategies.Language aggression in public debates on immigration / Andreas Musolff -- Thinking globally, acting locally: analyzing the adaptation of mainstream supremacist concepts to a local socio-historical context (Elam in Cyprus) / Fabienne H. Baider -- Conditional support for territorial migrations in Serbian national discourse / Jelena Petrovic -- In transit: representations of migration on the Balkan route: discourse analysis of Croatian and Serbian public broadcasters (RTS and HRT online) / Tatjana Radanovic Felberg and ljiljana ¿aric -- "We mustn't fool ourselves": "Orbánian" discourse in the political battle over the refugee crisis and European identity / Agnes Bolonyai and Kelsey Campolong -- "A great and beautiful wall": Donald Trump's populist discourse on immigration / Massimiliano Demata -- Xenophobic trumpeters: a corpus-assisted discourse study of Donald Trump's Facebook conversations / Natalia Knoblock -- Donald Trump supporters and the denial of racism: an analysis of online discourse in a pro-Trump community / Nicholas Close Subtirelu.1 online resource (179 pages)
Having cake and eating it: how a hyperbolic metaphor framed Brexit
Full text linkSince Boris Johnson first invoked the idea that Britain could 'have its cake and eat it' by staying in the Single Market while ending freedom of movement, the phrase has become shorthand for Brexiters' optimism. Andreas Musolff (University of East Anglia) explains how a metaphorical proverb shot through with hyperbolic assertion proved so powerful
Metaphor and Discourse
No full textInhoudsopgave : -- A discourse-centred perspective on metaphorical meaning and understanding / Jörg Zinken and Andreas Musolff -- Metaphor, culture and discourse : the pressure of coherence / Zoltán Kövecses -- Three kinds of metaphor in discourse : a linguistic taxonomy / Gerard Steen -- Reading sonnet 30 : discourse, metaphor and blending / Paul Chilton -- Collecting political meaning from the count of metaphor / Christ'l De Landtsheer -- Metaphor and context : a perspective from artificial intelligence / John Barnden -- Metaphor and political communication / Jonathan Charteris-Black -- Missions and empires : religious and political metaphors in corporate discourse / Veronika Koller -- How business press headlines get their message across : a different perspective on metaphor / Michael White and Honesto Herrera -- MRSA : portrait of a superbug : a media drama in three acts / Brigitte Nerlich and Nelya Koteyko -- Shifting identities : metaphors of discourse evolution / Roslyn M. Frank -- 'Neither a borrower nor a lender be' : linguistic mercantilism in Renaissance France / David Cowling -- Interpretations of the body politic and of natural bodies in late sixteenth-century France / Kathryn Banks -- Bodies politic and bodies cosmic : the Roman stoic theory of the 'two cities' / Jeffery Zavadil -- Metaphor in the history of ideas and discourses : how can we interpret a medieval version of the Body-state analogy? / Andreas Musolff -- Studying metaphor in discourse : some lessons, challenges and new data / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Julia E. Lonergan.Inhoudsopgave : -- A discourse-centred perspective on metaphorical meaning and understanding / Jörg Zinken and Andreas Musolff -- Metaphor, culture and discourse : the pressure of coherence / Zoltán Kövecses -- Three kinds of metaphor in discourse : a linguistic taxonomy / Gerard Steen -- Reading sonnet 30 : discourse, metaphor and blending / Paul Chilton -- Collecting political meaning from the count of metaphor / Christ'l De Landtsheer -- Metaphor and context : a perspective from artificial intelligence / John Barnden -- Metaphor and political communication / Jonathan Charteris-Black -- Missions and empires : religious and political metaphors in corporate discourse / Veronika Koller -- How business press headlines get their message across : a different perspective on metaphor / Michael White and Honesto Herrera -- MRSA : portrait of a superbug : a media drama in three acts / Brigitte Nerlich and Nelya Koteyko -- Shifting identities : metaphors of discourse evolution / Roslyn M. Frank -- 'Neither a borrower nor a lender be' : linguistic mercantilism in Renaissance France / David Cowling -- Interpretations of the body politic and of natural bodies in late sixteenth-century France / Kathryn Banks -- Bodies politic and bodies cosmic : the Roman stoic theory of the 'two cities' / Jeffery Zavadil -- Metaphor in the history of ideas and discourses : how can we interpret a medieval version of the Body-state analogy? / Andreas Musolff -- Studying metaphor in discourse : some lessons, challenges and new data / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Julia E. Lonergan.Met register en bibliografische verwijzinge
Attitudes Towards Europe: Language in the Unification Process
No full textBritish Discourse on Europe: British national identity in the European context, Gerlinde Mautner; Representations of Germany in the context of European integration in Margaret Thatcher’s autobiographies, Ruth Wittlinger; A province of a federal super state, ruled by an unelected bureaucracy – keywords of the Euro-sceptic discourse in Britain, Wolfgang Teubert; German Discourse on Europe: Words, phases and argumentational structures in the German debate on Europe in the early post-war period, Heidrun Kämper; Euro: the career of a European neologism in German press texts (1995–1999), Dieter Herberg. Comparative Studies: The European debate in and between Germany and Great Britain, Colin Good; The metaphorization of European politics: movement on the road to Europe, Andreas Musolff; Attitudes to Europe – mediated by translation, Christina Schäffner; Der Ton wird schärfer. Stereotypes in media translation, Arachne van der Eijk-Spaan
INTRODUCTION: UPDATING DISCOURSE/S ON METHOD/S
No full textThe focus on the need to define the method of “rightly conducting one’s reason,
and seeking truth in the sciences” (in René Descartes’ superb 1637 formulation)
(Descartes 1965) has repeatedly been foregrounded during the evolution of
English Studies, particularly in Italy. The broad domain of English Studies can
encompass a wide variety of fields, including applied/applicable sociolinguistics,
cultural studies, literature/s in the English language/s, film, gender,
the history of the English language/s, humour, media, terminology and
lexicography, theatre, translation, interpreting and language teaching. This rich
panorama entails variations in methodological approaches that are also made
necessary by the contemporary poly-cross-media environment(s), with its
multifaceted, ever-emerging, technologically driven communicative resources.
Accordingly, the purpose of this special issue is to reconsider a number of
methods and approaches with their theoretical grounding, functioning, sociopolitical
implications and potential for cross-fertilization of ideas.
The contributions explore key contemporary concerns in the domain of
research and language teaching and have been grouped into two main sections,
discourse analysis and translation studies, the latter of which also features a
study dedicated to the impact of blended (or entirely computer-based) teaching
models and social media applications on English Language Teaching
Conceptualization, metaphor scenarios and interculturality in the sociocognitive and critical analysis of political and social phenomena
Full text linkO Professor Andreas Musolff é um distinto Professor Pesquisador de Comunicação Intercultural na Universidade de East Anglia, Reino Unido. Ele é considerado um dos primeiros estudiosos a pesquisar linguagem e comunicação dentro de uma linguística cognitiva, estrutura sociocultural/discursiva. Nesse esforço, Musolff promoveu a sinergia entre a Análise Crítica do Discurso e a Teoria da Metáfora Conceitual, defendendo as raízes culturais das metáforas e a cognição social. Ele já ensinou nas Universidades de Dűsseldorf e Londres e foi Visiting Fellow no Truman Institute, Hebrew University em Jerusalém e na Queen Mary University of London. Musolff é um homem de vastos interesses intelectuais que tem demonstrado um talento notável para aplicar os conceitos da Linguística Cognitiva a outros campos do conhecimento, incluindo: Ciência Política, Comunicação Intercultural, Filosofia, Semântica Histórica, Psicolinguística, Sociolinguística, Antropologia Linguística, Pragmática e Linguística Aplicada. Sua pesquisa mais recente explora metáforas de competição no contexto do COVID-19 (2022), uso de metáforas no discurso político transculturalmente (2021), linguagem e racismo (2019) e provérbios (2020) na comunicação cotidiana. O professor Musolff teve a gentileza de aceitar nosso convite para esta entrevista. Suas palavras certamente inspirarão nossa reflexão crítica e agenda de pesquisa.Professor Andreas Musolff is a distinguished Research Professor of Intercultural Communication at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is considered one of the first scholars to research language and communication within a cognitive linguistics, sociocultural/ discursive framework. In this effort, Musolff has promoted the synergy between Critical Discourse Analysis and Conceptual Metaphor Theory, advocating for the cultural roots of metaphors and for social cognition. He has previously taught at the Universities of Dűsseldorf and London and was a Visiting Fellow at the Truman Institute, Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Queen Mary University of London. Musolff is a man of far-ranging intellectual interests who has demonstrated a remarkable talent for applying the concepts of Cognitive Linguistics to other fields of knowledge, including: Political Science, Intercultural Communication, Philosophy, Historical Semantics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Linguistics Anthropology, Pragmatics and Applied Linguistics. His most recent research explores competition metaphors in the context of COVID-19 (2022), metaphor use in political discourse cross-culturally (2021), language and racism (2019), and proverbs (2020) in everyday communication. Professor Musolff has been as kind as to accept our invitation for this interview. His words will surely inspire our critical reflection and research agenda.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
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