Scenario Negotiation in Online Debates about the European Union - Analysing Metaphor in Communication

For decades, the focus of Metaphor Studies laid on Conceptual Metaphor and its role in the human conceptual system. This study, however, focuses on metaphor in communication. Its aim is to shed light on how commenters in online debates discuss EU-related topics via Scenario Negotiation, expressing and negotiating their points of view via Metaphorical Scenarios. The study offers a review of current metaphor theory and practical approaches and proposes an Integrated Model of Scenario Negotiation. The results are based on context-sensitive, qualitative analysis of data which stem from a corpus of online debates from the Guardian's Comment is free section. The discussion illustrates the genre-specific conceptual-communicative functions of Scenario Negotiation in naturally occurring discourse.

List of contents

Current theories of metaphor - Discourse-analytical approaches to metaphor - Online debating in the Guardian Comment is free section - The Integrated Model for Scenario Negotiation - Metaphorical Scenarios and Scenario Negotiation

About the author

Stefanie Vogelbacher studied English and Spanish at the University of Heidelberg. She worked as a researcher at the English Department, where she also taught English Linguistics. She completed her PhD thesis on Scenario Negotiation in Online Debates in 2018. Today she teaches English and Spanish at a secondary school.

Product details

• Authors: Stefanie Vogelbacher
• Assisted by: Stefanie Vogelbacher (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783631782811
• ISBN: 978-3-631-78281-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Illustrations: 31 Abb.
• Series: Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft; Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissensc; DASK - Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturw; DASK - Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture; DASK - Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture; DASK - Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Langu; DASK ¿ Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics