MILITARY METAPHOR IN SPORTS MEDIA DISCOURSE

WAR Metaphor in the Chinese Economic Media Discourse

The economic media discourse depends upon a complex web of metaphors, among which WAR metaphor is worthy of special attention. The data used in this study is comprised of 2566 articles (about 1.2 million words) under the Economy column of China Daily published in 2014. Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) is used as the analytical framework to investigate WAR metaphor in the economic media discours...

Metaphor in Discourse

Many have thought that the principles of metaphorical interpretation cannot be formally specified. We’ll attack this position with two claims. Our first claim is that some aspects of metaphor are productive, and this productivity can be captured by perspicuous links between generalisations that are specified in the lexicon, and general purpose circumscriptive reasoning in the pragmatic componen...

Metaphor Detection in Discourse

Understanding contextual information is key to detecting metaphors in discourse. Most current work aims at detecting metaphors given a single sentence, thus focusing mostly on local contextual cues within a short text. In this paper, we present a novel approach that explicitly leverages global context of a discourse to detect metaphors. In addition, we show that syntactic information such as de...

The discourse dynamics approach to metaphor and metaphor- led discourse analysis

The use of metaphor as a tool to uncover people’s ideas, attitudes and values through analysis of discourse is demonstrated and illustrated with data collected in a social science research project. A “discourse dynamics” approach to metaphor situated within a complexity / dynamic systems perspective is developed. This approach is turned into a method of “metaphor-led discourse analysis” which i...

Sports as Metaphor for Comparative Inquiry