Affiliation:
1. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Abstract
Abstract
Numerous studies on political discourse claim that metaphors help politicians to construct coherent arguments to
convince their voters. Yet, most of them, with a few notable exceptions, do not adhere to any theory of argumentation. In this
paper, we integrate Discourse Dynamic Approach to Metaphor with Inference Anchoring Theory to
enhance our understanding of the interaction of metaphors and arguments in dynamic discourse. Our data come from three
pre-election debates: Two in Poland and one in the US. The focus is on the reform of the health service. We show how discourse
participants co-construct metaphors and arguments in an attempt to achieve their illocutionary goals. Their interaction is curbed
by a number of discursive forces identified in the data. We propose a classification of types of interaction between metaphors and
arguments, which can be further used for developing tools for automatic or semi-automatic identification of these types in large
corpora.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
Cited by
1 articles.
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