Metaphor Analysis Research Articles

The inclusivity of Anglican cathedrals and the coronation of King Charles III: embracing explicit religion, civic religion, and implicit religion

ABSTRACTJudith Muskett’s analysis of metaphors employed to characterise Anglican cathedrals draws attention to the inclusivity of these locations within secular and religiously diverse societies. They are positioned as places where sacred space and common ground collide and coalesce. Drawing on Edward Bailey’s discussion of implicit religion and civic religion, alongside explicit religion, the present study reports on an analysis of the 43 websites of Anglican cathedrals in England and the Isle of Man to map how these cathedrals orchestrated their response to the coronation of King Charles III. The websites provided rich exemplification of engagement with explicit religion (incorporating coronation-related music and prayers within their routine liturgical provision), with civic religion (arranging special services involving civic dignitaries and uniformed groups), and with implicit religion (welcoming within the sacred space a wide range of community-focused events, installations, and activities).

‘Brave and self-sacrificing Covid warriors:’ the metaphors used to describe healthcare workers in Thailand

ABSTRACT During 2020–2021, the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand was severe and difficult to control, and healthcare workers were important in managing the pandemic. This article focuses on the metaphors used in the news to describe healthcare workers during this period. The data were collected from news reports written and published in Thai held on the news database of Thailand (iQNewsClip). Conceptual metaphors were analysed based on Lakoff and Johnson and Kövecses, and using the concept of critical metaphor analysis from Charteris-Black. We found that two conceptual metaphors were used to describe healthcare workers: [HEALTHCARE WORKERS ARE WARRIORS] and [HEALTHCARE WORKERS’ OBLIGATIONS ARE HEAVY OBJECTS]. In addition, the research findings revealed that Thai elites or authorities used such metaphors to create meanings for healthcare workers to achieve certain objectives of the government in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and managing social behaviour. It may also have been a way to coerce healthcare workers to perform their duties.

Using Playful Metaphors to Conceptualize Practical Use of ChatGPT: An Autoethnography

ABSTRACTIn this short paper, we employ a month‐long autoethnography to investigate the utilization of ChatGPT through metaphor analysis. We conceptualize three metaphors—unreliable narrator, court jester, and sounding board—that possess the most explanatory capabilities in describing what ChatGPT is, when it can be used, and how it can be helpful. We posit that grounding the use of ChatGPT in metaphors could facilitate discussions and streamline the intricate mechanism of Large Language Models (LLMs). Our study indicates that by proffering playful metaphors as substitutes to apocalyptic and arcane ones, we can enhance the accessibility and comprehensibility of ChatGPT for non‐experts and policymakers, thereby potentially contributing to more informed and productive dialogues about the role and potential of LLMs in everyday life.

METAPHORS IN THE NOVEL “A FAREWELL TO ARMS” BY E. HEMINGWAY AND THEIR TRANSLATIONS FROM ENGLISH INTO UZBEK

This article is devoted to comparative analysis of metaphor in English and Uzbek languages, problems of translating metaphors, especially, comparative study of metaphor in English and Uzbek, and metaphors in the novel “A farewell to Arms” by E. Hemingway and their translations from English into Uzbek. The article emphasizes the peculiarities of the metaphors both in English and the Uzbek languages and also, the analysis of various aspects of their translation in Uzbek and the specific features of metaphors used E. Hemingway "A Farewell to Arms". It concludes that comparative analysis of Metaphor in English and Uzbek is significant from practical point of view. Training students in the context of professional and specific aspects of the foreign languages, and also studying its genres helps them in the future to establish correct intercultural communication, to be well informed about linguistics, obviously helps to improve literacy skills, to become among colleagues authoritative, stimulates professional growth in the professional environment.

Figurative Conceptualizations of Nations, Countries, and Institutions in Newspaper Articles on Migration

The paper discusses figurative conceptualizations of nations, countries, and institutions as either a container, a person, a sinking ship, a fabric, or hell in media discourse on the European migrant crisis. Applying Steen et al.’s (2010) three-dimensional model of metaphor analysis, we analyze a specific set of metaphorical linguistic expressions, which are inextricably related in the segments of the real discourse on migration, to discuss their rhetorical power and communicative function. The aim of this paper is to describe and identify cases when these are used as perspective-changing devices to influence readers’ opinion on an important issue such as migration.

Analysis of Metaphorical Expressions Used in Johnny Cashs’ Song Lyrics

This research explores Johnny Cash's song lyrics using George Lakoff's metaphor theory. It aims to understand the metaphorical expressions in Cash's song lyrics by analyzing their recurring themes and their connection to the socio-cultural context of the artist's era. The research includes identify metaphorical expressions and examine thematic motifs, the cultural and historical context that influenced the author's use of metaphors. The research also examined the influence of metaphorical language on the narrative depth and affective impact of Cash's compositions. Grounded theory in established metaphor analysis and the function of metaphor in artistic expression, the research expands upon the cognitive linguistic perspective by situating the analysis within Lakoff's theory. It gains insight into how metaphors communicate complex emotions, abstract ideas, and societal contemplations in Cash's lyrics. The research uses a systematic methodology to select songs and employs techniques for identifying metaphors based on Lakoff's theoretical framework. Thematic analysis is used to identify recurring patterns within the metaphorical expressions, while cultural contextualization helps understand the factors that shaped Cash's imaginative use of metaphors. This research had significant contribution to musicology, literary studies, and cultural analysis. By analyzing the metaphorical depth of Cash's lyrics from Lakoff's theory, it provides an original perspective on the artist's thought process and enhances the understanding of the lasting importance and thematic complexity of his contributions in contemporary music.

Perception for Safety Education of Early Childhood Teachers Observed through Metaphor Analysis

Perception for Safety Education of Early Childhood Teachers Observed through Metaphor Analysis

Metaphorical Analysis of the Perceptions of Professional Football Team Fans Toward Fair Play

Metaphorical Analysis of the Perceptions of Professional Football Team Fans Toward Fair Play

A Critical Analysis of Conceptual Metaphor in Inaugural Address by Joseph Biden

Metaphors play a crucial role in political discourses. This study critically analyzes conceptual metaphors found in inaugural address by the US President Joseph Biden in 2021. It is found that Biden has employed different conceptual metaphors to simply complex political views, making them more relatable and understandable to the public. At the same time, the president tries to use the power of metaphors to influence public perception and political ideologies in achieving social goals, highlighting the significance of personal sacrifice and unity. The incorporation of metaphors in political speeches is not a mere rhetorical flourish but rather a deliberate strategic choice. Therefore, it is essential for audiences to critically evaluate the underlying meanings and biases the speech may carry.

Statistical language model-based analysis of the English-Chinese corpus and political discourse

Abstract Politics and political discourse are closely related to people’s daily life, and this study aims to propose a new approach to political discourse analysis by combining English and Chinese corpora. By exploring the composition of formal language and the grammar generation process, this paper proposes an improved N-gram algorithm to address the shortcomings of the N-gram model in dealing with low-frequency words with low accuracy and uses the strategy of introducing alternative words to alleviate the problem of sparse data. Then, a critical metaphor analysis of political discourse in the English-Chinese corpus is conducted based on the improved statistical language model, and the convergence of political discourse is studied in terms of space and time. By analyzing the political discourse of American presidents, the spatial centrality factors of “we” and “our nation” were accurately extracted, and their correlations were 0.83, 0.73, 0.68, 0.51, 0.76, and 0.41 in order. The correlations of the unqualified facsimile noun phrases in the temporal convergence of political discourse reached 0.28, 0.25, 0.72, 0.68, and 0.54, respectively, and the accuracy of the improved N-gram model improved by about 28.1% compared with the traditional method, making using statistical linguistic models for political discourse analysis feasible and applicable.

Metaphors in Voice User Interfaces: A Slippery Fish

We explore a range of different metaphors used for Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) by designers, end-users, manufacturers, and researchers using a novel framework derived from semi-structured interviews and a literature review. We focus less on the well-established idea of metaphors as a way for interface designers to help novice users learn how to interact with novel technology, and more on other ways metaphors can be used. We find that metaphors people use are contextually fluid, can change with the mode of conversation, and can reveal differences in how people perceive VUIs compared to other devices. Not all metaphors are helpful, and some may be offensive. Analyzing this broader class of metaphors can help understand, perhaps even predict problems. Metaphor analysis can be a low-cost tool to inspire design creativity and facilitate complex discussions about sociotechnical issues, enabling us to spot potential opportunities and problems in the situated use of technologies.

Linguistic Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors in English and Kurdish Political Speeches

Linguistic Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors in English and Kurdish Political Speeches

Analysis of Rock Metaphor as Image of God in The Book of Psalm

Metaphor is a linguistic form usually used in literature genre, especially poem or lyric of songs. The meaning of metaphor is contradictory to its literal form, therefore, it needs to be analyzed to construct the meaning. This way is very important to translate metaphors properly rather than literally. The Book of Psalm is a part of The Bible consisting of poems, prayers, song, hymns and praises in which metaphors are frequently used. One of them is rock metaphor to describe an image of God. The purpose of this article to construct meaning of rock metaphor in Psalm by adopting mapping method and providing cultural and historical background.

Perceptions of football and fans of female footballers: metaphor analysis study

This study aims to investigate the metaphors of how female football players perceive the concepts of Football and Fans. The study employed phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research techniques. The study group of the research consisted of 122 female football players. Female footballers, “Football is like ……. Because ……” and “Fans are like ……. Because……” were asked to complete the sentences, and the data were obtained. The data obtained were analyzed using qualitative data content analysis, and similar expressions were grouped under the category name "Entertainment/Pleasure, Basic Need/Life Source, Supportive/Directive, Health, Emotion, Objectification and Other". The highest number of metaphors produced by female football players about the concept of "Football" was "Basic Need/Source of Life" (36.88%), and the metaphors related to the concept of "Fan" were found to be "Supporting/Directive" (50,81%) category.

Metaphorical framing of children’s digital media addiction in media discourse

The paper investigates figurative construal of children’s excessive use of electronic devices in articles that tackle the issues of children’s media addiction, as well as concentration and attention span, which are considered to be affected by this excessive use of technology. In giving their opinion on the topic, authors of articles resort to the use conceptual metaphor – a cognitive device where more abstract concept (a target domain) is being understood through the use of another, more concrete concept (a source domain). Authentic language data reveal the use of metaphorical linguistic expressions such as ‘digital overdose’ and ‘electronic cocaine’, which send a disturbing message that children are ‘overdosing’. This detailed analysis aims to investigate: (a) the types of metaphor (according to Steen’s 2010 three-dimensional model of metaphor analysis) in articles on children’s media addiction; (b) whether ADDICTION metaphors are dominant and deliberate; (c) their communicative function – the rhetorical function intended by the authors, as well as their rhetorical effects on recipients (notably, parents);(d) the implications of their combination with other metaphors within a sentence or a paragraph; (e) the possibility of resorting to alternative metaphor use.

An analysis of metaphor in COVID-19 TV news in English and Spanish

ABSTRACT Background Latinxs lack equitable access to science-based, accessible, trustworthy, and bilingual health information and rely heavily on TV news as a source of health information. This study examines how TV news media convey COVID-19 health- and safety-related information to the public, focusing on communications that target Latinxs in the US, a group disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Method To understand how information targets Latinxs, we analyzed conceptual metaphors used in Spanish and English descriptions of the COVID-19 pandemic using TV news archive. Metaphor is an integral part of daily communication that can help people explain what is abstract in terms of what is concrete. Our analysis focused on prominent COVID-19 metaphors in both languages: war, journey, and natural disaster. Results Similar to previous studies, we found that war metaphors were pervasive in English, for instance, as in ‘Diagnostic testing is the only weapon that allows you to fight COVID-19’ and ‘a 15-day battle with COVID-19.’ A new finding was that war metaphors were even more common in Spanish than in English. The journey metaphor had similar rates of use in both languages, while the natural disaster metaphors were more common in English than in Spanish. Conclusions Our work provides novel insights into how TV news reports use metaphor to convey information about COVID-19 to viewers in English and Spanish. We also offer implications on using culturally informed language and conclude with directions for future research to guide health communications serving linguistic minority communities such as Latinxs.

Challenges and opportunities of utilizing design thinking in the industry 4.0 era: based on the case study of industry wastewater treatment system development project process

This paper reviews the research process conducted on developing a new system for industry wastewater treatment application to increase efficiency and sustainability by adopting industry 4.0 technology. The challenge of this project was to (a) utilize the design thinking methodology (human-centered design) entire process; (b) focus on heavy industry rather than the targeted user; and (c) adapt state of art technology. The objective was to revisit and invent new methods, such as metaphoric analysis, body thinking, and organization persona that would contribute to high-level innovative ideas: specifically, (a) the organization persona allowed to understand the dynamics of the complicated stakeholder structure; (b) the role of prototyping was mainly descriptive for communication; and (c) the case’s idea generation was used to affect the entire process of the project as well as benchmarking other industries. This paper attempts to address whether it is possible to create a new methodology that would address innovative business opportunities in complicated and high-tech adapting industries.

When huskies bite back: A complex systems metaphor perspective on information technology project management

AbstractResearchers have acknowledged the usefulness of metaphors to understand organizational phenomena. More than fancy linguistic ornaments, metaphors can provide a rich understanding of the situation under investigation; demonstrate how individuals think, feel and behave; and be used as a diagnostic tool to help analyse organizational problems. Notwithstanding the importance of metaphor analysis, how system thinking principles can be applied to understand the elicited nature of metaphor in the context of information technology (IT) project management practices remains to be explored in greater detail. Drawing on the field of applied linguistics, coupled with complexity theory, a complex systems metaphor perspective is put forward as a fresh lens to understand IT project management practices. This perspective is illustrated through a discourse analysis of a large IT project in the National Health Service (NHS) in England.

China’s metaphorically “othered” image inThe New York Times(1949-2020)

This study investigates, within the framework of Critical Metaphor Analysis, how The New York Times ( NYT) has been metaphorically formulating China as an “other” from 1949 to 2020. Metaphors were identified with reference to Pragglejaz Group’s (2007) Metaphor Identification Procedure. WAR and GAME were detected as dominant concepts, and LIQUID, DISEASE, ANIMAL, MACHINE, and OBSTACLE secondary imagery. It is found that the newspaper’s journalistic values in foreign news reporting and judging criteria toward political leadership have remained radically unchanged. Having been influenced by changes in China-U.S. relations and America’s domestic socio-political ideals, the NYT has been othering China from the civilized world, which tends to be particularly prominent when China’s performance is short of the values and norms preached by the US, and became inconspicuous during China-U.S. alliance. Running counter to its commitment to “truth,” the newspaper employed discursive strategies to balance between America’s moral self-identity and its China policy, and vindicate behaviors identical to those it has been criticizing China for.

Stoma Perceptions of Adults with an Ostomy: A Metaphor Analysis in a Single Center.

To use metaphor to evaluate stoma perceptions among adults with ostomies to conceptualize and portray their lived experiences using a figurative approach. A qualitative research design was used. Participants were 27 adults with an ostomy who were followed up in the stoma therapy unit. Individuals were included in the study if they had had a temporary or permanent ostomy for at least 2 months and spoke Turkish. Participants were asked to complete the sentence: "Stoma is like…/similar to… because…." The researchers used content analysis to evaluate participants' responses. Interpretation of the metaphors developed by participants was carried out in five phases: coding, example metaphor compilation, theme development, ensuring trustworthiness, and transferring. Participants expressed a total of 17 unique and 10 repeated metaphors for the concept of "stoma." These metaphors were grouped under three different themes: positive (lifesaving), negative (punishment/enemy), and neutral (temporary/necessity for life). The most commonly used metaphors were life, savior, comfort, difficulty, fear, punishment, and necessity. Individuals with an ostomy mostly had negative metaphorical associations with stomas. The authors recommend that hospitals implement multifaceted interventions to bring positive metaphors to individuals with ostomies.