Chapter 5. “Today, the long Arab winter has begun to thaw”
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Stefanie Ullmann
Abstract
The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ represents one of the most significant socio-political crises in the Middle East and North Africa in recent years and its ramifications continue to affect not only local but global policy. This chapter investigates how the Arab revolutions have been conceptualised metaphorically in international political discourse by applying cognitive-linguistic theory (Lakoff and Johnson 2003[1980]; Fauconnier and Turner 2002) and adopting a triangulatory approach combining corpus-linguistic methods with critical metaphor analysis (Charteris-Black 2004). A wide range of metaphors could be identified with the most pervasive source domains ranging from season, birth-pregnancy-family and journey to contagious diseases and natural forces and disasters. Findings also show that, while using the same mappings, political representatives tend to focus on different entailments reflecting their distinct political backgrounds and attitudes.
Abstract
The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ represents one of the most significant socio-political crises in the Middle East and North Africa in recent years and its ramifications continue to affect not only local but global policy. This chapter investigates how the Arab revolutions have been conceptualised metaphorically in international political discourse by applying cognitive-linguistic theory (Lakoff and Johnson 2003[1980]; Fauconnier and Turner 2002) and adopting a triangulatory approach combining corpus-linguistic methods with critical metaphor analysis (Charteris-Black 2004). A wide range of metaphors could be identified with the most pervasive source domains ranging from season, birth-pregnancy-family and journey to contagious diseases and natural forces and disasters. Findings also show that, while using the same mappings, political representatives tend to focus on different entailments reflecting their distinct political backgrounds and attitudes.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Notes on Contributors vii
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Investigating the language of financial and organisational crisis
- Chapter 1. Crisis Marketing through conceptual ontology in metaphor in financial reporting 23
- Chapter 2. From economic crisis to austerity policies through conceptual metaphor 51
- Chapter 3. Responding to organisational misbehaviour 87
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Part II. Understanding discourses of political conflicts
- Chapter 4. Turning the heart into a neighbour 111
- Chapter 5. “Today, the long Arab winter has begun to thaw” 137
- Chapter 6. Metaphors for protest 169
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Part III. Studying personal crisis in psychotherapy and narrative
- Chapter 7. The ‘transformative’ power of metaphor 199
- Chapter 8. Co-constructing ‘crisis’ with metaphor 231
- Chapter 9. Narrative modulation in the storytelling of breast cancer survivors’ transitional experiences 255
- Chapter 10. Framing the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) 281
- Index 305
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Notes on Contributors vii
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Investigating the language of financial and organisational crisis
- Chapter 1. Crisis Marketing through conceptual ontology in metaphor in financial reporting 23
- Chapter 2. From economic crisis to austerity policies through conceptual metaphor 51
- Chapter 3. Responding to organisational misbehaviour 87
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Part II. Understanding discourses of political conflicts
- Chapter 4. Turning the heart into a neighbour 111
- Chapter 5. “Today, the long Arab winter has begun to thaw” 137
- Chapter 6. Metaphors for protest 169
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Part III. Studying personal crisis in psychotherapy and narrative
- Chapter 7. The ‘transformative’ power of metaphor 199
- Chapter 8. Co-constructing ‘crisis’ with metaphor 231
- Chapter 9. Narrative modulation in the storytelling of breast cancer survivors’ transitional experiences 255
- Chapter 10. Framing the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) 281
- Index 305
