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This chapter explores what happens to a metaphor after it has been first used. Metaphor
shifting refers to changes in adaptations made to the metaphor as the talk or text
proceeds. Shifting is analysed from the perspective of what language users do with
the vehicle (or source domain) term, its connecting concepts and lexical fields, in
a dynamic flux of language use. The data are Metaphor shifting is drawn from two very
different discourse contexts: school classrooms and conciliation talk. In each context,
certain types of shifting are found which serves the particular discourse purposes
or goals. This adaptive variation with context is found to connect to underlying stability
in the available processes of metaphor use. Metaphor shifting bus illustrates the
research issue that arises in applied linguistic approaches to metaphor, and as discussed
in the Introduction to this volume, of relating generalised principles to context-bound
descriptive frameworks.
Empirical evidence is presented of three types of shifting: vehicle re-deployment,
vehicle development, and vehicle literalisation, in which metaphor shifts into the
real world. The range of types of shifting are exemplified and described, together
with the rhetorical and discourse effects of their use in context. The final section
brings these processes together in a general framework of metaphor shifting, and considers
implications for applied metaphor research and theory building. |
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Cameron, Lynne (2008). Metaphor shifting in the dynamics of talk. In: Zanotto, Mara
Sophia; Cameron, Lynne and Cavalcanti, Marilda C. eds. Confronting metaphor in
use: An applied linguistic approach. Pragmatics & Beyond. Amsterdam: John Benjamins,
pp. 45–62. |
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Cameron, Lynne (2008). Metaphor shifting in the dynamics of talk. In: Zanotto,
Mara Sophia; Cameron, Lynne and Cavalcanti, Marilda C. eds. Confronting metaphor
in use: An applied linguistic approach. Pragmatics & Beyond. Amsterdam: John Benjamins,
pp. 45–62. |
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ext-03190d13b2d9c994ca52e5d3594e5aae |
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Metaphor shifting in the dynamics of talk |
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