Movement Metaphors Research Articles

The kids are (not) alright: Teachers’ perspectives on the discourse of youth in social-emotional crisis

In this qualitative study stemming from a discourse community with six elementary teachers in the United States, discourse analysis was used to explore how these teachers discuss the international notion that youth are in a social and emotional crisis. The teachers resisted a deficit narrative that youth are to blame for this crisis and require fixing. Resistance was evident in teachers' discursive strategies such as illuminating students’ strengths, recognizing how “crisis” can emerge from systems operating as intended, and pointing out the contradictory metaphors of movement (stuck in the past, obsessed with progress) that can prevent global transformation in education.

Utopia, memoria e indeterminatezza. Passaggi dalla tradizione all’innovazione

The essay explores creative processes, emphasizing hetero-dox imagination, the notion of utopia, and the metaphor of movement. If, as Ernst Bloch put it, thinking means ventur-ing beyond, in a way that does not keep under or skates over what already exists, theory here is adopted to grasp the link between thought and movement. The study of utopia reveals how socially embedded actors historically understand the present, offering an engaging perspective akin to a history of the present, where positively valued traits emerge in a given semiosphere. Bloch’s premise is reiterated: the realm of pos-sibilities is the chief constraint in devising thought, especially the utopian sort.

Figurative language and ‘doing interculturality’ in a lingua franca

Abstract Research has shown how, in a narrative event, people give meanings to and conceptualise their experience in figurative language. The aim of this case study was to explore the figurative language which emerged in the flow of mobile students’ narrative accounts of interculturality. Pragmatic features of talk, including those specific to the lingua franca, were analysed in the participants’ use of figurative language. The data of the exploratory study derived from mobility project interviews conducted with South Korean student teachers at the beginning and end of their short-term stays in Finland. The results revealed, among other things, that metaphors of movement and force were used for ‘doing interculturality’, when the interviewees constructed themselves, others and events in figurative language in the context of the mobility project interview. Using oppositional metaphor (e.g., free-strict) as well as metonymy and hyperbole, the participants presented their views on school education, society and people in the two contexts. By exploring the narrators’ strategies for telling and their discursive construction of roles and positions, it was possible to analyse in more detail the interplay of figurative language and the narrative construction of interculturality.

Frames and political choice in Scottish election campaigns

The paper presents interdisciplinary research using the framework of cognitive linguistics based metaphor theory and nationalism studies of political science. Frames of movement are placed under scrutiny during the discourse analysis of the 2016 and 2021 election manifestos of the Scottish National Party and social media posts. In relation to metaphors of movement, images describing the future of an independent Scotland are also detected. The authors attempt to analyse and interpret findings both from the perspective of cognitive linguistics and ethno-symbolism. Apart from the texts of the manifestos, the timeframe of the research involved social media posts two months preceding and two months following the elections in both cases. Methodology was issue-driven and computer assisted but supervised: key words linked to movement were extracted from the manifestos and clustered. Their occurrence and frequency in the social media posts was checked. In the qualitative analysis phase, messages of the manifestos and of the posts were contrasted in order to answer our research question what kind of persuasive political discourse was used when options for the citizens were outlined.

Метафоры движения в нарративной структуре произведений сборника «В поисках за правдой» Я. В. Абрамова

The aim of the study is to solve the problem of realizing the meaningful role of movement metaphors in the narrative system of the populist writer Ya. V. Abramov’s works in order to identify his idiostyle and the specifics of artistic generalization processes typical of his creative manner. The article examines the poetics of the movement metaphor in Abramov’s literary texts, the content function of which is realized in the system of the author’s narrative strategies. The study describes the processes of depicting the “path” of the heroes from the short stories collection “In Search of the Truth” by Ya. V. Abramov (1884). In the course of the analysis, it is proved that the author’s choice of narrative strategies is due to the peculiarities of his idiostyle, autobiographical and documentary nature of his prose. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that the work for the first time considers the creative manner of Ya. V. Abramov, a writer of the rationalistic-enlightenment trend in classical realism, manifested in the system of the author’s narrative strategies and concretized in the study of the movement metaphor. The results obtained have proved that in Abramov’s narrative, the movement metaphors act as catalysts for the ideological and aesthetic nature of the “truth of life”, that the concept of the stories heroes’ “path” is created by the narrator in a certain topos - a place where the “truth of life” of each is represented. The ideological and aesthetic analysis of Ya. V. Abramov’s prose proves that the writer creates an occasional narrative world and, with the movement metaphors, enhances the semantic role of “change”, “adversity”, “striving for change” when depicting the heroes and artistic circumstances appealing to the reader’s imagination and creativity.

Имплицитная репрезентация концепта ДВИЖЕНИЕ глаголами звучания с семой ШУМ (на материале немецкого языка)

The purpose of the study is to describe sound verbs with the distinctive feature “noise”, implicitly expressing the MOVEMENT concept. The paper examines in detail the specifics of reflection of conceptual movement, manifested in the corresponding linguistic means at the lexico-semantic and syntactic levels. The study is novel in that it is the first to identify the factors influencing metaphorisation, which determines the integration of a peripheral, context-conditioned semantic meaning into the structure of the basic meaning of sound verbs. As a result of the study, the researchers have identified models representing the metaphor of movement in verbs with the semantics of sound.

Специфіка художньої концептуалізації добового часу в малій прозі М. Вінграновського

In modern Ukrainian linguistics, given its general anthropological orientation, cognitive research is quite productive, including in the field of literary text, which allows us to describe the linguistic means of its interpretation at the level of conceptual structures. The basic concepts in the categorization of the world include TIME. The purpose of the study is to outline the means of artistic conceptualization of daily time and their functional and semantic load in M. Vingranovskyi’s prose texts, to consider the artistic conceptualization of daily time in view of idiostylistic features of the writer’s language. In the discourse of M. Vingranovskyi’s short prose, artistic time is not reduced to the reproduction of the properties of physical time. M. Vingranovskyi’s model of time is deeply rooted in the mythopoetic picture of the world and passed through the prism of the narrator’s individual worldview. Lingual expression of the idea of time occurs through the realization of individual temporal values. Carriers of temporal semantics in the text are often nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives. In addition, we consider detailed contexts with temporal content. As research shows, M. Vingranovskyi mainly resorts to the reproduction of the cyclical nature of time. Accordingly, the images of parts of the day become important. The concepts DAY, NIGHT, MORNING, EVENING in the language of the analyzed works are verbalized with words of different parts of speech, which contain the appropriate temporal sema. The nominative fields that form their artistic and semantic content are quite branched. For each of the concepts, the nucleus consists of nouns that name the parts of the circadian cycle (morning, day, evening, night), the synopsis zone includes their synonyms (dawn, predawn, twilight), adverbs to denote the duration of the action (at night, nights, by day), the initial time limit (since morning, before dawn; since evening); verbs that convey the state of nature in accordance with the time of day (to dawn; to grow dark, to get dusky, to darken). The near periphery includes nouns and qualitative adjectives, which, combined with temporal names, convey the visual, sound, tactile, psychological characteristics of parts of the day. According to our observations, the leading method of conceptualizing the time of day – the image of the time, the stretching of time. The far periphery in the expression of the analyzed concepts is formed by individual authorial figurative contexts with the names of celestial bodies, natural, spatial realities, names of animals, actualized in landscape sketches. The metaphors of movement, color and burning are the most revealing for the associative figurative conceptualization of parts of the day. It is worth emphasizing that in the perception of the time of day value markers are placed by the narrator. The specificity of the artistic conceptualization of the time of day is due to the author’s idiosyncratic guidelines, the attraction to cinematography. Images of natural time convey the idea of cyclicity, the natural harmony of time, the experience of the value of every moment of human life. Their embodiment is due to the perspective of the narrator, his emotional state.

Laying One’s Cards on the Table: Experiencing Exile and Finding Our Feet in Moral Philosophical Encounters

Abstract Engaging with the philosophical writings of Iris Murdoch, we submit that there are difficulties associated with providing a good description of morality that are intimately connected with difficulties in understanding other human beings. We suggest three senses in which moral philosophical reflection needs to account for our understanding of others: (1) the failure to understand someone is not merely an intellectual failure, but also engages us morally; (2) the moral question of understanding is not limited to the extent to which we understand a particular person, but also presents itself in how we picture difficulties in understanding people; and (3) “philosophical pictures of morality” fundamentally shape the conceptual framework we use to investigate morality, as well as the analysis of morality we find illuminative and satisfactory. Exploring the implications of these claims, we ask what it means to think of others as the same, or as different, from ourselves. We then consider the ethical significance of finding, or not finding, our feet in our encounters with others, dwelling on how the metaphor of movement reveals one way in which we are never at peace in the exploration of morality.

Geosocialities, Flow and Renewal in Microbial Rivers

This article draws on interview data and insights from environmental studies and somatic therapy to argue for the significance of thinking ‘with rivers’ in order to reaffirm human and nonhuman entanglements in the current challenges presented by anthropogenic devastation. River microbial communities are unintelligible and complex entities due to their unclear origin and continuous flow downstream. The account of one environmental scientist is presented to consider how the metaphors of movement used in the riverine context assist in exploring the complicated dynamics of fluid communities facing constantly changing environments I call ‘microbial rivers’. A pollution incident affecting a UK river, where microbial communities responded by growing in number and activity, further illustrates the intersection of communities and ecosystems in their adaptation to troubling human interventions. Engaging with somatic understandings of trauma, this article proposes thinking with flow as a possibility to reimagine the capacity for renewal when experiencing debilitating adversities, thus countering apocalyptic responses of immobility in the face of environmental destruction and inviting novel opportunities for growth for human and nonhuman communities.

How Constructive News Outlets Reported the Synergistic Effects of Climate Change and Covid-19 Through Metaphors

ABSTRACT COVID-19 has provoked fears that the heavy reporting of pandemic developments may cause climate change to slip from public attention. Views have also converged that the focus should be on the positive lessons of COVID-19 for addressing climate change. This paper examined Guardian Online and Positive News to identify examples of good practice in reporting the synergistic effects of climate change and COVID-19, as both are committed to covering climate change and practice solutions-oriented constructive journalism that provides context by explaining relations between issues. The study sought to identify the types of synergistic effects that were reported and how they were reported through metaphors—key conceptualisation tools. Analysis of 153 news articles published in the first year of the pandemic showed that the coverage of synergistic effects was solutions-oriented and synergistic effects were discussed mainly through Movement and Colour metaphors—particularly the colour Green. War metaphors which have dominated reporting when climate change and COVID-19 have been discussed separately were rare. Reliance on Movement and Colour metaphors can be interpreted as a positive practice, as Movement metaphors are familiar, vivid and more flexible than War metaphors, while Green metaphors are closely associated with environmentalism and have positive connotations.

Траектории словесности в научной судьбе Елены Владимировны Душечкиной

The article deals with the scientific fate of Elena Vladimirovna Dushechkina, the professor of St. Petersburg University. Using the metaphor of movement and the concept of trajectory the author shows that, being formed at the University of Tartu as a researcher of ancient literature, E.V. Dushechkina, follows this trajectory and expands the range of studied texts to poetry and prose of classical Russian literature, of proper names in literature and the reality of children's literature and pioneer songs, and leaves us with wonderful books and articles which can serve as a model for studies of Russian literature.

Anxieties of Interdisciplinarity

Anxieties provoked by interdisciplinarity have been part of broader ideological disputes about the legitimacy of boundaries. This essay looks at how critics have uncovered how the structures of the academy limit or direct interdisciplinary efforts, and the ways these connections impact the allocation of the university’s intellectual, labor, and material resources. It then turns to look more specifically at the field of South Asian studies in the United States. It offers a critical history of contemporary discussions about interdisciplinarity especially as they took place in the humanities, and contextualizes those conversations taking place within South Asian studies programs and curriculum. Inspired by the scholarship that relates interdisciplinarity to the neoliberal university, it considers how new interdisciplinary development in these programs has increasingly been aligning with neoliberal projects of globalization within the academy, and connects those developments back to the field’s early history. As a way of analyzing the stakes and relevance of interdisciplinarity for South Asian studies specifically, this essay thinks through how the project has been set up at the intersection of spatial constructions – a crossroad of traffic – and posits using metaphors of movement to retain the political viability of interdisciplinary processes.

Metafora ruchu i jej urzeczywistnienie w muzyce przestrzennej XX wieku

The Metaphor of Movement and Its Materialisation in the Spatial Music of the 20th Century The article concerns the issue of experiencing spatial music. While discussing movement and space in music, Bohdan Pociej draws attention to two types of the spatiality of a musical work: the “inner” and “outer” spatiality. The first one comes from the nature of the sound material and the interaction of elements, it stays in the sphere of impressions, metaphors. The second one involves the physical parameters and the actual performance of the piece. The author notes that the works of composers of the 20th century tend to break through from the internal space, transforming it into the external one. The issue of the body as a centre is present in the works of Edmund Husserl, Yi-Fu Tuan, Edward Hall, and others. The metaphor of movement – concerning language and music – has become the subject of cognitive science. In the context of spatial music, the metaphorical level is combined with the physical level. During the performance of a composition, the listener may be have various relations with sound sources but always locates them concerning the location of their own body, which they treat as the centre. The two basic types of outer spatiality – the perspective of the observer and the perspective of the participant – correspond to the types of understanding of the metaphor of movement in music (internal spatiality) proposed by Steve Larson and Mark Johnson.

The Metaphor of Movement and Its Materialisation in Twentieth-Century Spatial Music

The article concerns the issue of experiencing spatial music. While discussing movement and space in music, Bohdan Pociej draws attention to two types of spatiality in a music work: the ‘internal’ and ‘external’ spatiality. The former derives from the nature of the sound material and the interaction of elements; it remains in the sphere of impressions and metaphors. The latter involves the physical parameters and actual performance of the piece. I demonstrate that the works of twentieth-century composers tend to break through from the internal space, transforming it into the external one. The issue of the body as a centre is present in the works of Edmund Husserl, Yi-Fu Tuan, Edward Hall, and others. The metaphor of movement in language and music has become the subject of research in cognitive science. In the context of spatial music, the metaphorical level coexists with the physical level. During the performance of a composition, listeners may enter into various relations with sound sources but always locate them with reference to their own bodies, which they treat as the centre. The two basic types of external spatiality – the perspective of the observer and the perspective of the participant – correspond to the two ways of understanding the metaphor of movement in music (internal spatiality) proposed by Steve Larson and Mark Johnson.

Człowiek w drodze. Czytając Zygmunta Baumana

The notions of the road and home, as well as home-coming, home-leaving, homelessness, and homeliness, have taken its essential place in philosophical research. Based on the mythological stories about Ulysses, Theseus, or Heracles, this metaphor is used to name the process of constant movement as a form of human existence. Zygmunt Bauman, whose life was also a continuous movement, both physical and mental, uses the metaphor of movement while describing the moral situation of today’s society. This text aims to analyse the models of human existence proposed by Bauman, to discuss the differences and similarities between them, and to put them into a broader context while discussing Otherness, contemporary ethics, and exile. The article also explores the possibilities of existence and applicability of the figures proposed by Zygmunt Bauman in the contemporary world.

Rilkes Korrespondenzen ed. by Alexander Honold und Irmgard M. Wirtz

Reviewed by: Rilkes Korrespondenzen ed. by Alexander Honold und Irmgard M. Wirtz Robert Weldon Whalen Alexander Honold und Irmgard M. Wirtz, eds., Rilkes Korrespondenzen. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2019. 285 pp. After all these years, nearly a century since his death, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) still fascinates. An impressionist, a symbolist, a kind of Central European Oscar Wilde, Rilke was the very archetype of the fin-de-siècle early [End Page 102] modern aesthete. He was also astonishingly industrious. Famous as a poet, he was also a playwright. He wrote prose fiction, criticism, reviews, and reportage. He devoted great care to his diaries. And he wrote heaps of letters. As Alexander Honold and Irmgard M. Wirtz note in the text reviewed here, one can rightly speak of Rilkes immense collection of letters as itself a kind of literary work, a "Werk neben dem Werk" or a "Werk im Werk" (7). The Literaturarchiv of the Swiss National Library in Bern holds a fine collection of Rilkes letters, and in 2017, it hosted a colloquium devoted to Rilkes correspondence. The fourteen essays in Rilkes Korrespondenzen, edited by Alexander Honold und Irmgard M. Wirtz, were contributions to that colloquium. The essays explore not only Rilkes life and work but also the wider category of letters-as-literature. Yes, letters can provide more or less accurate information about a letter writer's thoughts, mood, and whereabouts, and historians have long relied on them as primary sources. Letters, though, are funny things, as Honold and Wirtz point out in their article, "Rilkes Korrespondenzen: Das Briefwerk als Medium kommunikativer Selbstentwürfe und literarischer Interaktion." There is, of course, the odd time lag in letter writing; the recipient receives the letter sometime after the writer has written it, such that the meanings the recipient reads are, like starlight finally reaching earth, asynchronous, and in the interval, all sorts of things can intrude. By the time the recipient receives the letter and learns what the writer thinks, the writer may well be thinking something else. Lessing encouraged people to write the way they spoke, and letters might well reflect the writer's voice, but the language of letters is sometimes as fictive as fiction. Writers craft their letters to suit the recipients; a letter, especially in Rilkes case, might well reflect one of the several different Rilkes flowing within Rilke. Moreover, letters, whatever the writer's intent, might also reflect both the cultural assumptions of the day and the specific literary conventions of the time. It is no easy thing reading another's mail. The essays in Rilfces Korrespondenzen examine all these complexities. All are acutely sensitive to the letters' language. Jörg Schuster, in his "Brief-Bewegungen: Rainer Maria Rilkes Epistolographie," for instance, notes how often metaphors of movement appear in some of Rilkes letters and the ways these metaphors reflect Rilkes wider concerns. Several essays examine Rilkes correspondence with specific people—Alexander Honold, in "Ein Durchgang, kein Haus: Rilkes Briefwechsel mit Lou Andreas-Salomé als Reflexionsmedium einer transitorischen Alltäglichkeit," and Torsten [End Page 103] Hoffmann, in "'Aber ich bin ein Ungeschickter des Lebens': Figuren des Scheiterns in Rilkes Briefwechsel mit Lou Andreas-Salomé," discuss Rilkes complicated relationship with the remarkable Lou Andreas-Salomé. Women played a key role in Rilkes life, and Manfred Koch, in "Vom Werk des Gesichts zum Herzwerk," looks at Rilke's correspondence with Magda von Hattingberg; Gesine Bey in "'Dort, in der Buchhandlung, traf ich. . . eine seltsame Frau,'" discusses Rilke and Angela Guttmann; Ilma Rakusa, in "Marina Zwetajewas Beziehung zu Rainer Maria Rilke," considers Rilkes relationship with Marina Zwetajewa; and Brigitte Duvillard, in "Die Korrespondenz zwischen Rainer Maria Rilke und Marietta de Courten: Inventar der Briefe," writes about Rilke and Marietta de Courten. Christoph König, in « 'Faites la récolte, la première récolte d'amour,' » provides an overview of Rilkes rich correspondence with women and the role that correspondence played in Rilkes poetry. Letters not only illuminate relations with real people. Rilke was fond of using letters in fiction, as Stephan Kammer shows in "Schlechte Einheit: Zur Epistolarität des Erzählens in Rilkes Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurias Brigge" One of Rilkes most popular texts, Brief...

Explaining homelessness as a movement using metaphors in European academic writings of homelessness

The article shows how researchers conceptualize first-person experiences of homelessness using metaphors of movement. It is argued that the choice of metaphors in academic writing is consequential and critical—by making these choices, researchers hold the power to interpret and portray personal experiences and causalities from particular viewpoint. The present study scrutinized peer-reviewed academic articles published in three housing and homelessness research journals with European affiliations: European Journal of Homelessness (EJH), Housing Studies (HS), and Housing, Theory and Society (HTS) during the years 2012–2016. A data collection process resulted in 15 articles concentrating on homeless persons’ experiences. Articles were analyzed by applying a discursive metaphor analysis. The findings are presented by focusing on the predominant movement metaphor of ‘pathways’ and the more rarely used movement metaphor of ‘circle’. The discursive power of metaphors needs to be further studied and critically reflected in the housing and homelessness studies.

Neoliberal Metaphors in Presidential Discourse from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump

Neoliberalism is a complex and ambiguous concept that has been consistently referred to by critics of an economic policy based, at least rhetorically, on free market and free trade in the last few decades. These two major tenets of neoliberalism have dominated the discourse of American presidents since the beginning of the 1980s. The same period has also been characterized by an increased tendency to tie these economic policies to freedom, a core value of American identity that came to be defined primarily in economic terms. Starting with Ronald Reagan, economic freedom rather than political liberty became the measure of virtue, as the “free world” admitted more authoritarian regimes in its ranks in the name of anti-communism (Numberg 2003). The collapse of the Soviet bloc only served to bolster the vision that free market and free trade alone could bring prosperity and political freedom. This would become the dominant worldview at international institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF and would be solidified in the rhetoric of Republican and Democratic presidents alike (McNaught 2009). Drawing on the rhetorical and cognitive approaches developed by Lakoff and Johnson (1981), Chilton (2004) and Charteris-Black (2011), this paper analyses how conceptual metaphors in presidential discourse have contributed to creating a mythical vision of free trade and free market since the 1980s. The metaphors of movement, journey, nature, machine and sport resonate with the way Americans understand and experience their national identity, at the center of which are the values of freedom, competition and progress. They have turned an abstract economic philosophy into a comprehensible and sacred story at the heart of the American model. This model has been one of expansion of free markets and free trade. It has also been pervasive even in the domestic sphere, in the way a divisive issue like health care was framed through a positive market narrative. Despite policies that may have occasionally seemed to contradict the faith in the market, especially in the wake of the 2008 financial and economic meltdown, presidential discourse remained focused on free trade and free markets. This economic crisis may have triggered the first cracks in the mostly consensual view of free trade and free market in political rhetoric across the board. This article argues that much as there was a neoliberal consensus for 35 years, President Trump has been the great disrupter of neoliberal rhetoric by rejecting free trade agreements and by ignoring altogether the virtue of free market, a notion almost entirely absent from his discourse. He has replaced the neoliberal doxa with a discourse centered on the trade deficit and on short-term accumulation of national wealth and power. He has embraced the virtue of national sovereignty while rejecting what he called “globalism”. He has offered an antagonistic vision of a world in which international trade is conceived as a zero-sum game. This new vision is reflected in the metaphors used by a president who has challenged the norms of presidential rhetoric at many levels.

Metaphors of movement in psychotherapy talk

Metaphors of physical movement perform both substantive and organizational functions as they can represent things and construct cohesive links in discourse. This paper examines movement metaphors in psychotherapy talk, a context where both functions are equally salient. Categorical data and discourse analytic methods were used to investigate (i) types of target topics and metaphorical movement, (ii) relationships between topics, types of movement, and speaker, and (iii) how the substantive and organizational functions interact in proximity. There was no three-way interaction but all bivariate associations between topics, movement types, and speaker were significant. Key findings include (i) clients were more likely to use movement metaphors to discuss issues while therapists more likely to discuss therapeutic concepts and construct reference links; (ii) forward movement occurred less frequently than expected as a source for issues while backward movement more frequently than expected as a source for reference links; (iii) therapist metaphors were more likely to depict directions of movement associated with progress, while client metaphors were associated with stagnation, regression, or uncertainty. Clinical implications and directions for future research are highlighted.

Toward an Olfactory Language System

The lack of a scent discourse in art restricts our cultural understanding of olfaction. Part of this lack is attributable to an impoverished vocabulary for scent. Throughout Western culture, scents are referred to by their observable, visual counterpart, such as “banana.” However, looking at cultural factors that influence our sensorial vocabulary, researchers Asifa Majid and Niclas Burenhult have noted a more diverse vocabulary for olfactory phenomena in the Jahai language (spoken in parts of Malaysia and Thailand). Considering the possibilities of such extended scent vocabulary system, this article describes preliminary attempts to generate such terminology through a panel experiment at the Hammer Museum. In the results of the panel experiment, the prevalence of motion, tactile, and physical contour–related descriptors points to an almost uncanny relationship between the tactile and the olfactory. The sense of olfaction, like the tactile sense, often evokes metaphors of movement along a surface . This enlarged sensory vocabulary for describing scent would increase our ability to conceive of, and communicate, possible experiences within our material world, with potential implications for museum practitioners and preservationists.