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Date: 21-Feb-2024
From: Tessa Arneri [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Argumentative resistance to violence metaphors for cancer: Wackers (2024)


Title: Argumentative resistance to violence metaphors for cancer
Subtitle: An analytical study of argumentation against metaphor
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
                http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/argumentative-resistance-to-v
iolence-metaphors-for-cancer

author: Dunja Wackers
Abstract:

Violence metaphors for cancer – such as ‘she is fighting cancer’ or
‘she lost her battle against cancer’ – are highly common in discourse
about cancer. At the same time, these metaphors are controversial and
contested. The present dissertation sheds novel light on the
metaphors’ contentious status by conducting a close analysis of
standpoints and arguments that are put forward against these metaphors
in public discourse. The analysis is guided by the pragma-dialectical
approach to argument analysis and approaches to metaphor analysis that
are grounded in cognitive linguistics.

In this dissertation, the author first examines how different types of
argumentation in resistance to violence metaphors for cancer can
relate to specific features of the contested metaphors. Subsequently,
she examines the nature of different resistance standpoints and the
dimensions of metaphor use these standpoints may be targeted at. The
second part of the dissertation is focused on the analysis of
arguments that are put forward against implications of violence
metaphors for cancer, as well as the ways in which these implications
can be countered by means of metaphor extension.

Together, the dissertation’s findings demonstrate the multifacetedness
of argumentative resistance against violence metaphors, and how such
resistance can take different forms depending on a protagonist’s
precise point of view and their arguments for objecting to a
particular (property of) metaphor. Furthermore, the dissertation
demonstrates the value of combining theoretical and empirical
knowledge on argumentation and metaphor in order to gain a better
understanding of the ways in which metaphors are received and
critically reflected upon.

Linguistic Field(s): Not Applicable

Written In: English (eng)



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