{"title":"‘As democracy grows’","authors":"Onwu Inya","doi":"10.1075/msw.21022.iny","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n This paper investigates the metaphorical framing of the concept of democracy in Nigerian Senate debates\n (henceforth, NSD) in a mini-corpus of 214 meta-discursive commentaries on democracy by legislators, with insight from metaphor\n scenario theory. Three source concepts – “\n erect structure”, “living organism”,\n “dividends” and their associate scenarios are analysed. These scenarios are exploited by legislators to\n effect specific argumentative and ideological conclusions, such as Nigerian democracy is weak, positive-self-presentation by\n legislators amongst others. The paper reveals the conceptual, evaluative and ideological structures that dominate the discourse\n about democratization in Nigeria, especially in the Fourth Republic, from the perspective of legislators.","PeriodicalId":51936,"journal":{"name":"Metaphor and the Social World","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Metaphor and the Social World","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.21022.iny","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper investigates the metaphorical framing of the concept of democracy in Nigerian Senate debates
(henceforth, NSD) in a mini-corpus of 214 meta-discursive commentaries on democracy by legislators, with insight from metaphor
scenario theory. Three source concepts – “
erect structure”, “living organism”,
“dividends” and their associate scenarios are analysed. These scenarios are exploited by legislators to
effect specific argumentative and ideological conclusions, such as Nigerian democracy is weak, positive-self-presentation by
legislators amongst others. The paper reveals the conceptual, evaluative and ideological structures that dominate the discourse
about democratization in Nigeria, especially in the Fourth Republic, from the perspective of legislators.
期刊介绍：
The journal Metaphor and the Social World aims to provide a forum for researchers to share with each other, and with potential research users, work that explores aspects of metaphor and the social world. The term “social world” signals the importance given to context (of metaphor use), to connections (e.g. across social, cognitive and discourse dimensions of metaphor use), and to communication (between individuals or across social groups). The journal is not restricted to a single disciplinary or theoretical framework but welcomes papers based in a range of theoretical approaches to metaphor, including discourse and cognitive linguistic approaches, provided that the theory adequately supports the empirical work. Metaphor may be dealt with as either a matter of language or of thought, or of both; what matters is that consideration is given to the social and discourse contexts in which metaphor is found. Furthermore, “metaphor” is broadly interpreted and articles are welcomed on metonymy and other types of figurative language. A further aim is to encourage the development of high-quality research methodology using metaphor as an investigative tool, and for investigating the nature of metaphor use, for example multi-modal discourse analytic or corpus linguistic approaches to metaphor data. The journal publishes various types of articles, including reports of empirical studies, key articles accompanied by short responses, reviews and meta-analyses with commentaries. The Forum section publishes short responses to papers or current issues.
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