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Metaphors as tools for understanding in science communication among experts and to the public 隐喻作为专家与公众科学交流中的理解工具
IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2023-08-04 DOI: 10.1075/msw.22016.sme
Marthe Smedinga, A. Cienki, Henk W. de Regt
Science communication is highly important in present-day society. But mere factual information transfer does not suffice for enhancing public understanding of scientific results, theories, and concepts. In this paper we compare science communication among experts with communication from experts to laypeople, to better understand the role of metaphors in constructing understanding of abstract scientific concepts. As a case study, we analyze specialist and non-specialist scientific articles on epigenetics, the study of heritable changes in gene expression not altering DNA sequence. The results of our analysis show that there is no substantial difference between the two types of articles in frequency of metaphors and in their content. However, the function of the metaphors is different: the figurative aspect of metaphors is employed for public understanding but plays no role in specialist scientific articles. We outline the implications of these results for current philosophical debates on scientific understanding and public understanding of science: (1) metaphors are tools for rendering theoretical concepts intelligible, for both expert and lay audiences; (2) expert and public understanding differ in degree rather than in kind; (3) conveying understanding crucially involves skills: metaphors in this context do not so much add knowledge as enhance relevant conceptual reasoning abilities.
科学传播在当今社会非常重要。但是,单纯的事实性信息传递不足以增强公众对科学成果、理论和概念的理解。在本文中,我们比较了专家之间的科学传播和专家与普通人之间的科学传播,以更好地理解隐喻在构建对抽象科学概念的理解中的作用。作为一个案例研究,我们分析专家和非专家的科学文章表观遗传学,基因表达的遗传变化的研究不改变DNA序列。我们的分析结果表明,两种类型的文章在隐喻的使用频率和内容上没有实质性的差异。然而,隐喻的功能是不同的:隐喻的比喻方面用于公众理解,而在专业科学文章中不起作用。我们概述了这些结果对当前关于科学理解和公众对科学理解的哲学辩论的影响:(1)隐喻是使理论概念易于理解的工具,对于专家和非专业受众都是如此;(2)专家和公众的理解在程度上不同,而不是在种类上不同;(3)传达理解至关重要地涉及技巧:隐喻在这种情况下与其说是增加知识,不如说是增强相关的概念推理能力。
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A qualitative study of endometriosis-related pain 子宫内膜异位症相关疼痛的定性研究
IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2023-08-04 DOI: 10.1075/msw.22021.and
Giorgia Andreolli
This paper examines the conceptualizations of endometriosis-related pain by combining Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) with a corpus-based approach. Endometriosis is a complex and multi-faceted condition, affecting one in ten people assigned female at birth and bearing serious consequences on one’s physical, social and psychological wellbeing. Especially in cases when the pain is invisible, communication resorts to violent metaphors implying harm, physical damage, or fight. These metaphors are thought to increase the likelihood of eliciting an empathetic response in the interlocutor. However, such narratives may be detrimental at the individual level (e.g., increasing pain catastrophizing) and at the community level (e.g., overshadowing the capacity of communities to construct and use metaphors in alternative ways). Therefore, this study presents an initial exploratory analysis of metaphorical source domains in descriptions of endometriosis-related pain written in online, freely accessible blogs. Metaphorical expressions were manually annotated in a sample of KWICs basing on the MIPVU procedure and thematically categorized. The adoption of a bottom-up and top-down approach within a qualitative framework allowed an empirically grounded analysis of candidate source domains, which calls for further quantitative testing.
本文将概念隐喻理论(CMT)与基于语料库的方法相结合,研究子宫内膜异位症相关疼痛的概念化。子宫内膜异位症是一种复杂而多方面的疾病,每十个出生时被指定为女性的人中就有一个受到影响,并对一个人的身体、社会和心理健康产生严重影响。尤其是在疼痛看不见的情况下,沟通会诉诸暴力隐喻,暗示伤害、身体伤害或打斗。这些隐喻被认为会增加对话者产生移情反应的可能性。然而,这种叙述可能在个人层面(例如,增加痛苦的灾难性)和社区层面上是有害的(例如,掩盖了社区以替代方式构建和使用隐喻的能力)。因此,本研究对在线免费博客中描述子宫内膜异位症相关疼痛的隐喻源域进行了初步探索性分析。基于MIPVU程序,在KWIC样本中手动注释隐喻表达,并对其进行主题分类。在定性框架内采用自下而上和自上而下的方法,可以对候选来源领域进行基于经验的分析,这需要进一步的定量测试。
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Interacting comparatively 相互作用的比较
IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2023-06-15 DOI: 10.1075/msw.22024.the
Thajbah Al-Sheroqi, Fatima Al-Thani, Mariam Alzini, Ilhem Souayah, I. Theodoropoulou
Metaphors and proverbs are an indispensable sociocultural aspect of language. In this paper, we look at the sociocultural linguistic heterogeneity codified through metaphors and proverbs among three Arabic dialects, namely the Qatari, the Palestinian, and the Tunisian ones. The corpora of metaphors and proverbs have been elicited through interviews with relatives and friends, who live in Qatar, Palestine, and Tunisia respectively. The data are analyzed in the context of cognitive metaphor theory with a focus on comparative and interactionist perspectives. With a focus on two emerging themes, namely physical appearance, and sexual orientation, we argue that the Qatari dialect seems to be more inventive in the sexual orientation theme, while the Palestinian dialect foregrounds appearance due to the importance of marriage in Palestinian society, and the Tunisian dialect shows no emphasis on a specific theme. The differences we have found in metaphors and proverbs offer a glimpse of the various social orders, symbolic meanings, and lifestyles found in the three respective cultures, which are a vital aspect of cultural literacy in the Arab world. In this sense, the study is a suggestion on how to analyze qualitatively sociocultural linguistic heterogeneity at the level of figurative language and its symbolic meanings.
隐喻和谚语是语言中不可或缺的社会文化方面。在本文中,我们研究了通过隐喻和谚语编纂的三种阿拉伯方言,即卡塔尔语、巴勒斯坦语和突尼斯语的社会文化语言异质性。隐喻和谚语的语料库是通过对分别居住在卡塔尔、巴勒斯坦和突尼斯的亲戚和朋友的采访得来的。在认知隐喻理论的背景下对数据进行分析,重点从比较和互动的角度进行分析。通过关注两个新兴主题,即外表和性取向,我们认为卡塔尔方言似乎在性取向主题上更具创造性,而巴勒斯坦方言由于婚姻在巴勒斯坦社会的重要性而突出外表,而突尼斯方言没有强调特定主题。我们在隐喻和谚语中发现的差异,让我们得以一窥这三种文化中不同的社会秩序、象征意义和生活方式,这是阿拉伯世界文化素养的一个重要方面。从这个意义上说,本研究对如何在比喻语言及其象征意义的层面上定性分析社会文化语言异质性提出了建议。
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Scepticism voiced through extended metaphors 通过扩展隐喻表达的怀疑主义
Q2 LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2023-05-30 DOI: 10.1075/msw.22022.cib
Jurga Cibulskienė
Abstract When metaphors appear in a text in clusters within the same source domain, they are usually referred to as an extended metaphor ( Gibbs, 2015 ; Naciscione, 2016 ; Semino, 2008 ; Shutova, 2015 ; Thibodeau, 2016 ; Werth, 1994 ). This creates a coherent narrative or a scenario ( Musolff, 2016 ) encoding the evaluation of a particular socially-contested issue. The present study analyses how the evaluation of higher education reform in Lithuanian media is manifested through extended metaphor and whether negative evaluations prevail. For this investigation, a corpus of Lithuanian media texts on higher education reform was examined within the frameworks of Critical Metaphor Analysis ( Charteris-Black, 2014 ) and scenarios ( Musolff, 2016 ). The findings show that, when extended metaphors are ascribed positive, negative or mixed values and categorised into mini-narratives, leitmotif narratives and long narratives, they usually (24 out of 28) follow negatively and often death-related and ironically encoded narratives with differently twisted scenarios. This study, therefore, shows a persistent attempt by the media to evaluate the ongoing reform negatively.
摘要当隐喻出现在同一源域的语篇集群中时,它们通常被称为扩展隐喻(Gibbs, 2015;Naciscione, 2016;Semino, 2008;舒托娃,2015;锡伯杜,2016;Werth, 1994)。这创造了一个连贯的叙事或场景(Musolff, 2016),编码对特定社会争议问题的评估。本研究分析立陶宛媒体对高等教育改革的评价是如何通过延伸隐喻表现出来的,以及负面评价是否普遍存在。在这项调查中,在批判性隐喻分析(Charteris-Black, 2014)和情景(Musolff, 2016)的框架下,研究了立陶宛媒体关于高等教育改革的文本语料库。研究结果表明,当扩展的隐喻被赋予积极、消极或混合的价值,并被分为迷你叙事、主题叙事和长篇叙事时,它们通常(28个中的24个)都是负面的,通常是与死亡相关的,讽刺地用不同的扭曲场景编码的叙事。因此,这项研究表明,媒体一直试图对正在进行的改革进行负面评价。
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Landwhales, femoids and sub-humans 陆鲸、类动物和亚人类
IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2023-05-26 DOI: 10.1075/msw.23005.bog
Ksenija Bogetić, Frazer Heritage, Veronika Koller, M. McGlashan
Incels, or involuntary celibates, are a community of typically heterosexual young men who wish to, but do not, have sexual and romantic relationships with women. As a community, they have previously been characterised by their hatred for women and violent acts against members of society who they believe prevent them from having relations with women. In this paper, we highlight the pervasiveness of metaphor in incel communication, so far unaddressed in the budding studies of incel language. Specifically, using a sample of circa 22,500 words from the banned incel Reddit forum r/Braincels, we focus on how members of this community use metaphoric expressions to dehumanise gendered social actors, both as individuals and as groups. We discuss our findings against the backdrop of metaphor approaches to language, gender, and sexuality, and the relevance of dehumanising metaphorical rhetoric for online misogynist groups.
乱伦,或非自愿独身者,是一个典型的异性恋年轻男性群体,他们希望但不希望与女性发生性关系和浪漫关系。作为一个社区,他们以前的特点是对妇女的仇恨,以及对他们认为阻止他们与妇女发生关系的社会成员的暴力行为。在这篇文章中,我们强调了隐喻在incel交际中的普遍性,而到目前为止,在incel语言的萌芽研究中还没有得到解决。具体来说,我们使用了来自被禁止的incel Reddit论坛r/Braincels的约22500个单词的样本,重点研究了这个社区的成员如何使用隐喻表达来非人化性别社会行为者,无论是作为个人还是作为群体。我们在语言、性别和性的隐喻方法的背景下讨论了我们的发现,以及非人性化隐喻修辞对网络厌女群体的相关性。
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Metaphors and metonymies in the multimodal discourse of whaling 捕鲸多模态语篇中的隐喻与转喻
IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2023-01-10 DOI: 10.1075/msw.22008.yua
Xiaoben Yuan
Metaphors and metonymies are considered complex phenomena dependent on various factors. This paper looks at genre (as one of the many factors) to verify to what extent the subjective descriptions of a highly controversial and complex social topic such as whaling can be driven by discourse type. The whaling discourse was chosen because antiwhaling activist NGOs’ have had great success with their extensive social campaigns worldwide, while it is a highly controversial and politically charged topic. These unique features resulted in the emergence of advertising and political cartoons. By examining the similarities and differences between metaphors, metonymies, and other meaning-making tropes such as irony and hyperbole, the observed difference concerns both the intention behind the selection of source domains and a preference for favoring certain evaluative metaphorical expressions in one genre as opposed to another to have a distinct impact on its intended audience.
隐喻和转喻是受多种因素影响的复杂现象。本文考察了类型(作为众多因素之一),以验证对一个极具争议性和复杂的社会话题(如捕鲸)的主观描述在多大程度上可以由话语类型驱动。之所以选择捕鲸话题,是因为反捕鲸活动的非政府组织在全球范围内开展了广泛的社会运动,取得了巨大的成功,而这是一个极具争议性和政治色彩的话题。这些独特的特点导致了广告和政治漫画的出现。通过分析隐喻、转喻和反讽、夸张等其他表达意义的修辞手法之间的异同,我们观察到的差异既涉及到源域选择背后的意图,也涉及到一种体裁中对某些评价性隐喻表达的偏好,而不是另一种体裁对目标受众产生不同的影响。
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Metaphors, political knowledge and the basic income debate in Belgium 隐喻、政治知识和比利时的基本收入辩论
IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2022-09-27 DOI: 10.1075/msw.20015.van
Audrey Vandeleene, François Randour, Jérémy Dodeigne, Pauline Heyvaert, Thomas Legein, Julien Perrez, Min Reuchamps
The framing impact of political discourses has long been attested for. Metaphors in particular are known to ease the understanding of complex concepts and processes. Yet, the question remains to what extent metaphors do work the same on different recipients? Based on an experimental design, we test a potentially key moderating variable in the study of political metaphors: political knowledge. Our experiment aims at determining the extent to which the confrontation of individuals to arguments and metaphors impacts their preferences regarding the implementation of a basic income in Belgium. In particular, we hypothesize that the marginal effect of metaphors as cognitive shortcuts decreases when political knowledge increases. Our findings suggest that some metaphorical frames are more successful than others, hereby supporting the idea that the aptness of the metaphorical frame is a key factor when conducting experiments. We conclude that political knowledge is an important variable when analyzing the framing effect of metaphors, especially when it goes about very low or very high levels of political knowledge. The insertion of metaphors in political discourses may easily succeed in rallying individuals behind a given cause, but this would only work if participants have a lower knowledge of politics.
政治话语的框架效应早已得到证实。隐喻尤其有助于理解复杂的概念和过程。然而,问题仍然是隐喻在多大程度上对不同的接受者产生相同的效果?基于实验设计,我们测试了政治隐喻研究中一个潜在的关键调节变量:政治知识。我们的实验旨在确定个人对争论和隐喻的对抗在多大程度上影响了他们对比利时实施基本收入的偏好。特别是,我们假设隐喻作为认知捷径的边际效应随着政治知识的增加而降低。我们的研究结果表明,一些隐喻框架比其他隐喻框架更成功,从而支持了隐喻框架的适宜性是进行实验的关键因素的观点。我们的结论是,在分析隐喻的框架效应时,政治知识是一个重要的变量,特别是当它涉及非常低或非常高的政治知识水平时。在政治话语中插入隐喻可能很容易成功地将个人团结在一个给定的事业背后,但这只有在参与者对政治的了解较低的情况下才能奏效。
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Individual differences in identifying creative metaphors from video Ads 识别视频广告创意隐喻的个体差异
IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2022-08-12 DOI: 10.1075/msw.20016.pan
M. Pan, D. Tay
Reliable identification of metaphors from multimodal discourse has attracted scholarly attention in recent years. However, the role of individual differences in identifying creative metaphors from video ads is underexplored from an empirical perspective. This includes the extent to which individual differences influence metaphor identification in multimodal discourse and how the individual differences result in divergent identification. Our study contributes to addressing these issues by investigating how the background of researching metaphors influences identifying creative metaphors from video ads. We compared results of creative metaphor identification from three metaphor analysts and three external annotators who were novice to metaphor research and probed into the underlying reasons for divergent identification through discussions among six annotators. Both groups of annotators applied Creative Metaphor Identification Procedure for Video Advertisements (C-MIPVA) (Pan & Tay, 2021) into the same 20 Chinese video ads through a systematic process of inter-rater reliability examinations. Results from Fleiss’ Kappa and Percentage Agreement provided substantial support for reliable identification, regardless of the metaphor research background. Discussions among annotators revealed that the interplay between the individual differences in life experience and the influences of temporal and dynamic discourse lead to extra identification, different content, and missing cases of metaphors.
多模态语篇中隐喻的可靠识别近年来引起了学术界的关注。然而,从实证的角度来看,个体差异在识别视频广告创意隐喻中的作用尚未得到充分的探讨。这包括个体差异在多大程度上影响多模态语篇中的隐喻识别,以及个体差异如何导致歧异识别。本研究通过考察隐喻研究背景对视频广告创意隐喻识别的影响,有助于解决这些问题。我们比较了三位隐喻分析师和三位隐喻研究新手的外部注释者对创意隐喻的识别结果,并通过六位注释者的讨论探讨了识别分歧的根本原因。两组注释者通过系统的评分者间信度检验过程,将视频广告创造性隐喻识别程序(C-MIPVA) (Pan & Tay, 2021)应用于相同的20个中文视频广告。无论隐喻的研究背景如何,Fleiss Kappa和Percentage Agreement的结果都为可靠识别提供了有力的支持。注解者之间的讨论表明,生活经验的个体差异与时间话语和动态话语的影响之间的相互作用导致了隐喻的额外识别、内容不同和缺失情况。
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引用次数: 2
Review of Pérez-Sobrino (2017): Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Advertising psamrez - sobrino(2017):广告中的多模态隐喻与转喻
IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2022-08-08 DOI: 10.1075/msw.22009.bos
Pernilla Boström
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Review of Di Biase-Dyson & Egg (2020): Drawing Attention to Metaphor 回顾Di Biase-Dyson & Egg(2020):提请注意隐喻
IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2022-07-26 DOI: 10.1075/msw.22011.mue
María Muelas-Gil
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