Metaphor and Reconciliation: The Discourse Dynamics of Empathy in Post-Conflict Conversations

ISBN-13: 9780415956758 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 226 str.

Lynne Cameron;Cameron Lynne

Opis

Argues that dialogic use of linguistic metaphor should be the primary site of investigation and theory building for metaphor studies, and that cognitive metaphor theory needs to be compatible with empirical findings from specific discourse contexts.

Spis treści

List of Tables List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Transcription Conventions 1: Coming Together: Background to the Conciliation Process 2: The Discourse Dynamics Approach to Metaphor and Empathy 3: Metaphor Analysis 4: Conciliation as journeys of understanding and listening to stories 5: Metaphor Clusters and Absences 6: Connection and separation in conciliation 7: Becoming Involved in Violence 8: The Impact of Violence 9: Appropriating the Other’s Metaphors 10: Metaphor, Reconciliation and the Dynamics of Empathy 11: Images of Empathy Appendix: Using Metaphor in Reconciliation: Implications for Mediators Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Lynne J. Cameron is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Open University, UK, and Research Fellow in the Global Uncertainties programme of the UK Economic and Social Research Council. Publications include Researching and Applying Metaphor (with Graham Low, 1999), Metaphor in Educational Discourse (2003), Metaphor Analysis: A guide to research practice (with Robert Maslen, 2010).