Metaphor bibliography

Tue Aug 17 17:18:02 UTC 1999

Here is a bib that I got from Richard Cameron at University of Illinois at 
Chicago:

Otto's Annotated Bibiliography on Metaphor

Chilton, Paul & Mikhail Ilyin (1993). Metaphor in political discourse: 
thecase of the 'common  European house'. Discourse & society 4.1, pp. 7-31. 
[Chilton and his collaborators have used contemporary metaphor theory to 
interpret European political discourse, although their empiricism is quite 
weak.]

Fernández, Celestino & L. R. Pedroza (1982). The Border Patrol and news 
media coverage of   undocumented Mexican immigration during the 70's: A 
content analysis in the sociology of knowledge. California sociologist 5(2). 
[One of the few content analyses of newsprint representations of Chicanos. 
This work is sound, but without a language oriented theoretical perspective, 
the interpretation is limited.]

Gibbs, Raymond (1994). Poetics of the mind: Figurative thought, language and 
understanding,  Cambridge University Press. [Articulate and up to date 
introduction to the cognitivist framework on metaphor. A wealth of 
references to clinical validations of the tenets of the linguistic theory on 
metaphor.]

Lakoff, George & Mark Johnson. (1980) Metaphors we live by. Chicago 
University Press.   [Introduced the cognitivist approach to metaphor, which 
held that metaphor is not merely ornamental language, but is part of 
everyday speech,  and moreover affects the way we perceive, think and act.]

Lakoff, George (1991) Metaphor and war: The metaphor system used to justify 
war in the Gulf,    in Brian Hailet (ed.) Engulfed in war: Just war and the 
Persian Gulf. Matsunaga Institute for Peace. [A striking use of cognitivist 
metaphor analysis to the Gulf War. Notable in its interpretation; but 
strikingly offers almost no empirical validation. Compare to Pancake's 
(1993) treatment of the same topic.]

Lakoff, George (1993). The contemporary theory of metaphor, in Andrew Ortony 
(ed.) Metaphor  and thought, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press. 
[Ortony's volume is the best technical one-book overview of philosophical 
and linguistic views on metaphor. This article is the fullest recent 
characterization of the cognitivist model of metaphor.]

Lakoff, George (1996). Moral discourse: What conservatives know that 
liberals don't. University  of Chicago Press. [Book length exercise of 
metaphor analysis of American political discourse. It relies on deductive 
analysis and lacks an independent empirical base.]

Pancake, Ann (1993) Taken by storm: the exploration of metaphor in the 
Persian Gulf war.   Metaphor & symbolic activity 8(4), 281-295. [Strongly 
empirical paper on metaphor which compared headlines in several local 
newspapers to the official statements on the Gulf War. About 40 instances 
were presented. By way of comparision, I should note that my research will 
involve tabular presentations of hundreds of metaphors per topic.]

Quinn, Naomi (1991). The cultural basis of metaphor, in James Fernandez 
(ed.) Beyond        metaphor: the theory of tropes in anthropology. Stanford 
University Press. [While accepting the tenets of the power of prose 
metaphor, Quinn offers a major anthropological critique of Lakoff's 
cognitivist metaphor theory.]

Reeves, Frank (1983). British racial discourse: a study of British political 
discourse about race    and race-related matters. Cambridge University Press. 
[A content analysis review of 30 years of governmental language which 
documented amelioration of the language of race with minimal corresponding 
positive changes legistlative or govermental relations change.]

van Dijk, Teun (1993). Principles of critical discourse analysis. Discourse 
& society 4(2):249-283.     [The CDA principles summarized here are tenets 
that 
will guide the research project: academic rigor and socially-engaged 
scholarship. van Dijk's book-length studies of the media (one cited below) 
are also models for the research product that I propose.]

van Noppens, Jean-Pierre & Edith Hols (eds.) (1990). Metaphor II: A 
classified bibliography of  publications 1985-1990. John Benjamins. 
[Thousands of annotated references of topics covered by metaphor studies, 
about 30% done within the framework of Lakoff & Johnson's groundbreaking 
work.]

van Teeffelen, Toine (1994). Racism and metaphor: the Palestinian-Israeli 
conflict in popular     literature. Discourse and society 5(3): 381-405. 
[Excellent empirically driven analysis of racism based on popular novels.]

Fernandez, James W. (ed.) (1991). Beyond metaphor: the theory of tropes in 
anthropology,   Stanford University Press.

González, Gilbert G. (1996) A brief review of Chicano educational history in 
California: A legacy    of inequality. In Aída Hurtado et al. (eds). 
Strategic 
interventions in education: Expanding the Latina/Latino pipeline. Santa 
Cruz, CA: University of California Latino Eligibility Study.

Hayes-Bautista, David E. & Gregory Rodríguez (1996) "Criminalization of the 
Latino Identity     make fighting gangs much harder" Los Angeles Times, 
September 15.

Mazon, Mauricio (1984). The Zoot-suit riots: the psychology of symbolic 
annihilation. University    of Texas Press.

Omi, Michael & Howard Winatt (1994). Racial formation in the United States, 
2nd edition.    Routledge.

Santa Ana, Otto (1996a). 'Awash under a brown tide': Metaphor and the 
ideology of immigration     in American newspaper discourse. Submitted to 
Metaphor & symbolic activity.

Santa Ana, Otto (1996b). 'Like an animal I was treated': Anti-immigrant 
metaphor in American    media discourse. In revision for Discourse & society.

Santa Ana, Otto, Juan Morán & Cynthia Sánchez (forthcoming). Floods of  
illegals and waves of   nativism: Metaphoric structuring of anti-immigrant 
discourse in California politics. UCLA, Chicano Studies Research Center 
Working Paper Series.

Smitherman-Donaldson, Geneva & Teun van Dijk (eds.) (1988). Discourse and 
discrimination.     Wayne State University Press.

Soruco, Gonzalo R. (1996). Cubans and the mass media in South Florida. 
University Press of     Florida.

van Dijk, Teun (1989). Mediating racism: the role of the media in the 
reproduction of racism.     John Benjamins.

van Dijk, Teun (1990). Social cognition and discourse. In H. Giles & W.P. 
Robinson (eds.)     Handbook of language and social psychology. Wiley & Sons 
Ltd.

Wetherell, Margaret & Jonathan Potter (1992). Mapping the language of 
racism. Colombia    University Press.

Wilson, Clint & Felix Gutiérrez (1995). Race, multiculturalism, and the 
media: From mass to class   communication, 2nd edition, Sage Publications.

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Vershawn Ashanti Young
Ph.D Candidate
Language, Literacy, and Rhetoric
Department of English (m/c 162)
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South  Morgan
Chicago, Illinois  60607