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The metaphorical representation of depression in short, wordless animation films

机译:短,无言之动画电影中抑郁症的隐喻表示

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Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) claims that human beings can only understand abstract, complex phenomena by metaphorizing them in terms of concrete, more basic phenomena - and do so systematically. Unsurprisingly, therefore, expressing a state of 'depression' often draws on metaphors. Such metaphors, however, are not necessarily verbal in nature. In this article, the authors analyse the metaphors used to communicate depression in nine short, wordless animation films. They conclude that these films feature two dominant metaphors: depression is a dark monster and depression is a dark confining space, proposing that these two can be understood as linked on the basis of Lakoff's 'duals' theory discussed in 'The contemporary theory of metaphor' (1993). Finally, the authors argue that the medium of animation has affordances for presenting conceptual metaphors that are not available to language. The article will primarily benefit metaphor scholars, since the further development of CMT crucially requires that not only verbal manifestations of conceptual metaphors are examined but also visual and multimodal ones. Moreover, it needs to be established to what extent such metaphors draw on a limited set of embodied source domains, as CMT would predict. The authors hope that their findings will also be relevant to anyone with an interest in the representation of depression.
机译:概念隐喻理论(CMT)声称,人类只有用具体的、更基本的现象来隐喻抽象的、复杂的现象,才能理解这些现象,而且是系统地理解这些现象。因此,毫不奇怪,表达一种“抑郁”状态往往需要隐喻。然而,这种隐喻在本质上并不一定是口头的。在这篇文章中,作者分析了九部简短无言动画电影中用来表达抑郁的隐喻。他们得出结论,这些电影有两个主要的隐喻:抑郁症是一个黑暗的怪物,抑郁症是一个黑暗的封闭空间,并提出这两个可以被理解为联系在《当代隐喻理论》(1993)中讨论的莱考夫的“二元论”理论的基础上。最后,作者认为,动画的媒介为呈现语言所不具备的概念隐喻提供了启示。本文将主要有益于隐喻学者,因为CMT的进一步发展要求不仅要研究概念隐喻的口头表现,还要研究视觉和多模态表现。此外,正如CMT所预测的那样,还需要确定这些隐喻在多大程度上利用了有限的一组具体源域。作者希望他们的发现也能与任何对抑郁症表现感兴趣的人相关。

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