Overview
- Presents the first empirical study of cross-cultural global metaphor interpretation
- Introduces a new methodology for metaphor reception analysis
- Formulates original hypotheses about cultural origins of divergent metaphor interpretations
Part of the book series: Cultural Linguistics (CL)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Nation as Body
- Body Politic Metaphor
- Metaphor Interpretation
- Cross-Cultural Difference in Language
- Cultural Metaphor Theory
- Intercultural Communication
- Figurative Language
- Body-Person Metaphor
- Family Metaphor
- Building Metaphor
- Vehicle Metaphor
- Empirical Study of Metaphor Interpretation
- Origins of Metaphor
- Cultural Origins of Interpretation
- Global Metaphor Interpretation
- English as Second Language
- English as Foreign Language
- Methods for Studying Language
- Large-Scale Cross Cultural Language Research
About this book
This book presents the results of a large-scale experiment into interpretations of the metaphor “the Nation as a Body” among 1,800+ respondents from 30 linguistic and cultural backgrounds. In this first account of an empirical study of cross-cultural global metaphor interpretation of that scale, Musolff confirms that the meanings of metaphors are complex, culturally mediated and may differ for senders and recipients. The book provides a historical and cultural map of the traditions underlying differences in how the nation as a body – or, “the body politic” – is understood. Musolff challenges the hypotheses of the universality of “the nation” as a predominantly male-gendered and hierarchically organized concept and, in so doing, puts into question some of the key presuppositions of traditional historical and cognitive approaches to metaphor. For scholars and students of figurative language, the book lays out methodological foundations for cross-cultural metaphor comparison andreveals hidden meaning differences in political metaphor in English as lingua franca.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Andreas Musolff is Professor of Intercultural Communication in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He achieved his doctorate in German Linguistics from the University of Düsseldorf in 1989 and then commenced his career as a Lecturer in German at Aston University, Birmingham, UK, before becoming a Professor of German at Durham University, UK, in 2005. He joined the University of East Anglia in 2010. Andreas has worked as Visiting Fellow/Professor at the University of Heidelberg, the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Queen Mary University of London, the Hebrew University, and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. His research interests include cultural, cognitive and applied linguistics, metaphorology, critical discourse analysis and intercultural analysis.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: National Conceptualisations of the Body Politic
Book Subtitle: Cultural Experience and Political Imagination
Authors: Andreas Musolff
Series Title: Cultural Linguistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8740-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8739-9Published: 10 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8742-9Published: 11 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-8740-5Published: 09 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2520-145X
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1468
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 207
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Philosophy of Language, Political Theory, Cultural History