33.1004, Books: Resistance to metaphor in parliamentary debates: Renardel de Lavalette

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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 08:14:39
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Resistance to metaphor in parliamentary debates: Renardel de Lavalette

 


Title: Resistance to metaphor in parliamentary debates 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/resistance-to-metaphor-in-parliamentary-debates 


Author: Kiki Y. Renardel de Lavalette

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933769 Pages: 173 Price: Europe EURO 30


Abstract:

This dissertation aims to contribute to the study of political discourse by
examining how politicians turn parliamentary debates into their favour by
using metaphors in arguing, and how opposing parties resist these metaphors in
an attempt at turning the debate into their own favour. Combining insights
from the three-dimensional model of metaphor and the pragma-dialectical theory
of argumentation, it presents a novel theoretical perspective to investigate
the argumentative roles and functions that metaphors and the resistance to
metaphors fulfil at specific discussion stages, uncovering the advantages that
politicians attempt to attain by employing metaphors in those stages.

The author first examines how politicians use metaphors to express starting
points and the different ways in which opponents resist these metaphors to
achieve diverging outcomes in the opening stage of a discussion. Then, she
studies the argumentative role of metaphors in parliamentary debates by
focusing on cases of figurative analogy arguments in the argumentation stage
of the discussion, and on how figurative analogy arguments are countered.
Finally, she investigates how metaphors with a clarificatory function and the
resistance to such metaphors feature in parliamentary debates to establish a
shared understanding of the issue under discussion between politicians in the
confrontation and argumentation stages. Together, the studies presented in
this dissertation demonstrate that metaphors are important argumentative
strategies in parliamentary debates, and that resisting them seems to be a
pertinent skill for politicians.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis


Written In: English  (eng)

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