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A Conceptual Metaphor approach to war discourse and its implications

Malgorzata Fabiszak
Published 2007
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 Contents
Acknowledgements
..................................................................................5
 Style conventions
.....................................................................................7
 Introduction
............................................................................................ 9
Chapter I.
Conceptual metaphor and its implications for discourse .... 15
1. Introduction .................................................................................................. 152. Conceptual Metaphor Theory ...................................................................... 172.1. The early formulation .......................................................................... 172.2. Further development of CMT .............................................................. 192.3. The criticism of Conceptual Metaphor Theory .................................... 232.4. Generic metaphors and the Great Chain of Being ............................... 262.5. Metaphor from a functional perspective .............................................. 282.6. Linguistic and conceptual metaphor – a terminological problem ............................................................................................... 292.7. Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Discourse Analysis ....................... 322.8.The systemization of metaphors ........................................................... 363. Idealized Cognitive Models ......................................................................... 374. Image schemata ............................................................................................ 395. Force dynamics ............................................................................................ 416. Blending Theory .......................................................................................... 437. Axiological semantics .................................................................................. 498. A summary of the chapter and an outline for the analysis ........................... 50
Chapter II.
Corpus linguistics and the language of mass media ......... 53
1. Introduction .................................................................................................. 532. The beginnings of language corpora ............................................................ 543. Word meaning and the corpus ..................................................................... 554. The language of the mass media, discourse analysis and metaphor ............ 665. Conclusion ................................................................................................... 73
 
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Chapter III.
The concept of ‘war’ in the humanities ........................... 75
1. Introduction .................................................................................................. 752. Clausewitz and Jomini on war ..................................................................... 753. Philosophy and the concept of ‘war’ ............................................................ 784. Social studies and the concept of ‘war’ ....................................................... 855. Literature and war ....................................................................................... 916. War correspondents ..................................................................................... 987. Linguistics and war .................................................................................... 1028. Summary of the chapter ............................................................................. 109
Chapter IV.
A qualitative analysis of war news .................................. 111
1. Introduction ................................................................................................ 1112. Analysis of data ......................................................................................... 1122.1. Trybuna Ludu on the Falklands war (1982) ...................................... 1122.1.1. Paragraph-structuring metaphors ............................................... 1132.1.2. Isolated metaphors ..................................................................... 1142.1.3. Other rhetorical strategies .......................................................... 1202.2. The Times on the Falklands war (1982) ............................................ 1222.2.1. Isolated metaphors ..................................................................... 1232.2.2. Other rhetorical strategies .......................................................... 1342.3. Trybuna Ludu on the American air raids on Libya (1986) .................1352.3.1. Paragraph-structuring metaphors ................................................1352.3.2. Isolated metaphors .................................................................... 1392.3.3. Other rhetorical strategies .......................................................... 1452.4. Rzeczpospolita on the American air raids on Libya (1986) ............... 1492.4.1. Isolated metaphors ..................................................................... 1492.5. The Times on the American air raids on Libya (1986) ...................... 1522.5.1. Paragraph-structuring metaphors ............................................... 1532.5.2. Isolated metaphors ..................................................................... 1562.5.3. Other rhetorical strategies .......................................................... 1592.6. Trybuna Ludu on the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan(1988-1989) ....................................................................................... 1602.6.1. Paragraph-structuring metaphor ................................................ 1612.6.2. Isolated metaphors ..................................................................... 1612.6.3. Other rhetorical strategies .......................................................... 1632.7. Rzeczpospolita on the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan(1988-1989) ....................................................................................... 163
 
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32.8. The Times on the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan(1988-1989) ....................................................................................... 1652.8.1. Paragraph-structuring metaphors ............................................... 1652.8.2. Isolated metaphors ..................................................................... 1662.8.3. Other rhetorical strategies .......................................................... 1692.9. Trybuna on the war on terror ............................................................. 1772.9.1. Isolated metaphors ..................................................................... 1772.9.2. Other rhetorical strategies .......................................................... 1802.10. The Times on the war on terror ....................................................... 1812.10.1. Paragraph-structuring metaphors ............................................. 1812.10.2. Isolated metaphors ................................................................... 1833. A summary of the qualitative analysis of war reports ................................ 188
Chapter V.
Words from the lexical field of war and their metaphoric potential. A corpus-based analysis ...................................................... 195
1. Introduction ................................................................................................ 1952. The data ...................................................................................................... 1983. The British National Corpus ...................................................................... 2034. The Pragglejaz Procedure .......................................................................... 2045. The analysis of concordance lines: Frequency of literal and metaphoricaluses ........................................................................................................... 2085.1. ATTACK ........................................................................................... 2085.2. BOMB ................................................................................................ 2105.3. CONFLICT ........................................................................................ 2145.4. DEFEND ............................................................................................ 2155.5. FIGHT ................................................................................................ 2195.6. INVADE ............................................................................................ 2225.7. SURRENDER .................................................................................... 2256. Summary of the results and conclusion ..................................................... 227
Conclusion
.......................................................................................... 231
Appendix 1
......................................................................................... 237
Appendix 2
.. ....................................................................................... 241
Index of conceptual metaphors and metonimies
............................ 247
Index of authors
................................................................................. 249
References
.......................................................................................... 253
Streszczenie [Summary in Polish]
..................................................... 267
 
 
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