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Metaphor in spoken discourse
- What is metaphor in spoken discourse?
- The historical context for metaphor in spoken discourse
- Metaphor in spontaneous spoken discourse
- Metaphor occurs fairly frequently in talk, but with uneven distribution
- Metaphorical talk most commonly features vehicle terms that enter into the flow of topic talk rather than appearing as A IS B statements
- Frequent use is made of conventional metaphors and rather rare use of novel or striking metaphors
- Conventional metaphors often use terms relating to the physical and perceptual world that also carry affect
- Very frequently used words, particularly phrasal verbs, account for much metaphor use
- Distinctions between metaphorical and non-metaphorical uses are often blurred rather than clear-cut
- Metaphor in spoken discourse: summary
- What are the key issues that discourse analytic studies of metaphor have brought to light?
- Issues around cognitive metaphor theory and discourse
- Constraints on the language of metaphor
- Methodological issues from using spontaneous spoken discourse
- The discourse dynamics approach
- Metaphor-led discourse analysis
- Identifying metaphor in spoken discourse
- Investigation of metaphor patterns
- Analysing the discourse dynamics of metaphors
- Looking to the future
- Note
- References
- Further reading
Abstract
To contextualize discourse approaches to metaphor, we can look back in time to the appearance of two earlier perspectives: the rhetorical and the cognitive. These earlier perspectives influence, inform and in some cases prefigure later ones.
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