Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Merging tenets and tools in socio-political metaphor analysis 1
4. I Construing reality through metaphor
5. Similes vs. metaphors. A case study on the conceptualisation of Covid-19 pandemic 23
6. From the closet to the stars. Metaphoric construals of gender identity in tumblr. A case study 51
7. “A wall of human misery”: Critical metaphor analysis and the discursive representation of Ukrainian refugees in British news articles 81
8. Polarising metaphors in far-right populist tweets: A comparative crosslinguistic study 107
9. Imagine a cell as a medieval fortress: Metaphor as a tool of explanation and persuasion in the Serbian pro-vaccination discourse 135
10. II Contesting the world through metaphor
11. War metaphors and conspiracy theories 159
12. Fighting metaphors: Social resistance to mainstream metaphors 177
13. The construction and survivability of “blaming” metaphors on Chinese social media 207
14. III Performing ideology through multimodal metaphor
15. Metaphorical perspectives on women in armed conflicts. Female depictions in the murals of Northern Ireland 229
16. Identifying and interpreting visual metaphors in political cartoons 255
17. Image-schematic structuring of metaphor in visual art from the perspective of socio-political context. A case study of Jerzy Kalina’s sculpture Pomnik Anonimowego Przechodnia ‘Monument of an Anonymous Passer-by’ 279
18. Fire, war and revolution: Metaphor in media discourses of political protest 307
19. Index 333