Fabiszak_M_Conceptual_Metaphor - Contents Acknowledgements...

Contents
Acknowledgements .................................................................................. 5
Style conventions ..................................................................................... 7
Introduction ............................................................................................ 9
Chapter I. Conceptual metaphor and its implications for discourse .... 15
1. Introduction .................................................................................................. 15
2. Conceptual Metaphor Theory ...................................................................... 17
2.1. The early formulation .......................................................................... 17
2.2. Further development of CMT .............................................................. 19
2.3. The criticism of Conceptual Metaphor Theory .................................... 23
2.4. Generic metaphors and the Great Chain of Being ............................... 26
2.5. Metaphor from a functional perspective .............................................. 28
2.6. Linguistic and conceptual metaphor – a terminological
problem ............................................................................................... 29
2.7. Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Discourse Analysis ....................... 32
2.8.The systemization of metaphors ........................................................... 36
3. Idealized Cognitive Models ......................................................................... 37
4. Image schemata ............................................................................................ 39
5. Force dynamics ............................................................................................ 41
6. Blending Theory .......................................................................................... 43
7. Axiological semantics .................................................................................. 49
8. A summary of the chapter and an outline for the analysis ........................... 50
Chapter II. Corpus linguistics and the language of mass media ......... 53
1. Introduction .................................................................................................. 53
2. The beginnings of language corpora ............................................................ 54
3. Word meaning and the corpus ..................................................................... 55
4. The language of the mass media, discourse analysis and metaphor ............ 66
5. Conclusion ................................................................................................... 73

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Chapter III. The concept of ‘war’ in the humanities ........................... 75
1. Introduction .................................................................................................. 75
2. Clausewitz and Jomini on war ..................................................................... 75
3. Philosophy and the concept of ‘war’ ............................................................ 78
4. Social studies and the concept of ‘war’ ....................................................... 85
5. Literature and war ....................................................................................... 91
6. War correspondents ..................................................................................... 98
7. Linguistics and war .................................................................................... 102
8. Summary of the chapter ............................................................................. 109
Chapter IV. A qualitative analysis of war news .................................. 111
1. Introduction ................................................................................................ 111
2. Analysis of data ......................................................................................... 112
2.1. Trybuna Ludu on the Falklands war (1982) ...................................... 112
2.1.1. Paragraph-structuring metaphors ............................................... 113
2.1.2. Isolated metaphors ..................................................................... 114
2.1.3. Other rhetorical strategies .......................................................... 120
2.2. The Times on the Falklands war (1982) ............................................ 122
2.2.1. Isolated metaphors ..................................................................... 123
2.2.2. Other rhetorical strategies .......................................................... 134
2.3. Trybuna Ludu on the American air raids on Libya (1986) ................. 135
2.3.1. Paragraph-structuring metaphors ................................................ 135
2.3.2. Isolated metaphors .................................................................... 139
2.3.3. Other rhetorical strategies .......................................................... 145
2.4. Rzeczpospolita on the American air raids on Libya (1986) ............... 149
2.4.1. Isolated metaphors ..................................................................... 149
2.5. The Times on the American air raids on Libya (1986) ...................... 152
2.5.1. Paragraph-structuring metaphors ............................................... 153
2.5.2. Isolated metaphors ..................................................................... 156
2.5.3. Other rhetorical strategies .......................................................... 159
2.6. Trybuna Ludu on the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
(1988-1989) ....................................................................................... 160
2.6.1. Paragraph-structuring metaphor ................................................ 161
2.6.2. Isolated metaphors ..................................................................... 161
2.6.3. Other rhetorical strategies .......................................................... 163
2.7. Rzeczpospolita on the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
(1988-1989) ....................................................................................... 163

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2.8. The Times on the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
(1988-1989) ....................................................................................... 165
2.8.1. Paragraph-structuring metaphors ............................................... 165
2.8.2. Isolated metaphors ..................................................................... 166
2.8.3. Other rhetorical strategies .......................................................... 169
2.9. Trybuna on the war on terror ............................................................. 177
2.9.1. Isolated metaphors ..................................................................... 177
2.9.2. Other rhetorical strategies .......................................................... 180
2.10. The Times on the war on terror ....................................................... 181
2.10.1. Paragraph-structuring metaphors ............................................. 181
2.10.2. Isolated metaphors ................................................................... 183
3. A summary of the qualitative analysis of war reports ................................ 188
Chapter V. Words from the lexical field of war and their metaphoric
potential. A corpus-based analysis ...................................................... 195
1. Introduction ................................................................................................ 195
2. The data ...................................................................................................... 198
3. The British National Corpus ...................................................................... 203
4. The Pragglejaz Procedure .......................................................................... 204
5. The analysis of concordance lines: Frequency of literal and metaphorical
uses ........................................................................................................... 208
5.1. ATTACK ........................................................................................... 208
5.2. BOMB ................................................................................................ 210
5.3. CONFLICT ........................................................................................ 214
5.4. DEFEND ............................................................................................ 215
5.5. FIGHT ................................................................................................ 219
5.6. INVADE ............................................................................................ 222
5.7. SURRENDER .................................................................................... 225
6. Summary of the results and conclusion ..................................................... 227
Conclusion .......................................................................................... 231