| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages) |
| Series |
Cultural linguistics |
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Cultural linguistics
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| Contents |
Figurative Conceptualisations of the Nation(-State) -- Nation, Nationalism and Metaphor -- Political Discourse -- Cultural Conceptualisations of the Nation as a Body or Person: Scenario Analysis of Metaphor Interpretations -- The Nation as a Body or Person in the English L1 Sample -- The Nation as a Body or Person in the German L1 Sample and Other Germanic L1 Samples: Dutch, Norwegian -- The Nation as a Body or Person in Romance L1 Language Samples: Italian, Romanian, Spanish, French and Portuguese -- The Nation as a Body or Person in Slavic L1-Language Samples: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Serbian, Croatian and Bulgarian -- The Nation as a Body or Person in Other European L1 Language Samples: Hungarian, Lithuanian and Greek -- The Nation as a Body or Person in L1 Language Samples from Middle Eastern Countries: Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Israel, Pakistan -- Understanding the Nation as Body/Person from Asian Perspectives: China and Japan -- Cultural Variation in Figurative Scenarios of the Nation’s Body and/or Person |
| Summary |
This book presents the results of a large-scale experiment into interpretations of the metaphor "the Nation as a Body" among 1,800+ respondents from 30 linguistic and cultural backgrounds. In this first account of an empirical study of cross-cultural global metaphor interpretation of that scale, Musolff confirms that the meanings of metaphors are complex, culturally mediated and may differ for senders and recipients. The book provides a historical and cultural map of the traditions underlying differences in how the nation as a body or, "the body politic" is understood. Musolff challenges the hypotheses of the universality of "the nation" as a predominantly male-gendered and hierarchically organized concept and, in so doing, puts into question some of the key presuppositions of traditional historical and cognitive approaches to metaphor. For scholars and students of figurative language, the book lays out methodological foundations for cross-cultural metaphor comparison and reveals hidden meaning differences in political metaphor in English as lingua franca |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Metaphor -- Political aspects
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State, The.
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National characteristics.
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Metaphor -- Political aspects
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National characteristics
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State, The
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789811587405 |
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981158740X |
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