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The Role Polysemy can Play in Evoking Action: The Case of ' recovery' in Economic Discourse.

机译:一词多义在激发行动中可以发挥的作用:经济话语中的“复苏”案例。

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This thesis investigates a specific case of polysemy, the word " recovery," as it occurs in economic discourse and the role it can play in evoking responses in a speech community. The analysis explores the following set of questions: what are the linguistic dynamics underlying the marked emergence of this metaphor during the 2008 financial crisis? If the metaphor emerged during prior financial crises, what role did it play? Using both statistical and discourse analysis techniques, the study traces the attestations of "recovery" and its broader conceptual metaphor THE ECONOMY IS A PATIENT over four centuries. By applying the tenets of conceptual metaphor theory, the analysis reveals that THE ECONOMY IS A PATIENT metaphor carries significant cognitive freight via its conceptual blend attributes. Over time, these attributes are reactivated through economic and cultural narratives prompted by the stress of the financial environment. The cognitive freight conveys a powerful ideological and emotive force which can call on the speech community to take political, social, and moral action. The study concludes that, while often overlooked, diachronic analysis can be a powerful linguistic tool to study the cognitive as well as rhetorical and ideological dynamics underlying polysemy in a given culture.
机译:本文研究了多义性的一个特殊情况,即“恢复”一词,它出现在经济语篇中,并且在语音社区引起人们的反响中可以发挥作用。该分析探讨了以下问题:2008年金融危机期间,这种隐喻的显着出现背后的语言动力是什么?如果这种隐喻是在先前的金融危机期间出现的,它起了什么作用?这项研究使用统计和话语分析技术,追溯了“复苏”的证明及其更广泛的概念隐喻。经济是四个世纪以来的患者。通过应用概念隐喻理论的宗旨,分析表明,《经济是一个病人》隐喻通过其概念融合属性承载着重要的认知能力。随着时间的流逝,由于金融环境的压力,经济和文化叙事重新激发了这些属性。认知活动传达了强大的思想和情感力量,可以呼吁言语界采取政治,社会和道德行动。该研究得出的结论是,历时分析虽然经常被忽视,但却可以作为一种强大的语言工具,用于研究特定文化中多义性的认知以及言语和意识形态动力学。

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  • 作者

    Petrella, Joyce P.;

  • 作者单位

    Harvard University.;

  • 授予单位 Harvard University.;
  • 学科 Linguistics.;Rhetoric.;Economics.
  • 学位 A.L.M.
  • 年度 2011
  • 页码 147 p.
  • 总页数 147
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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