A DISCOURSE DYNAMICS APPROACH TO METAPHOR IN TALK. A CASE STUDY OF A BBC RADIO TALK Cover Image

A DISCOURSE DYNAMICS APPROACH TO METAPHOR IN TALK. A CASE STUDY OF A BBC RADIO TALK
A DISCOURSE DYNAMICS APPROACH TO METAPHOR IN TALK. A CASE STUDY OF A BBC RADIO TALK

Author(s): Joanna Chwesiuk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: METAPHOR IN TALK; BBC; radio; metafory,

Summary/Abstract: The present study provides support for Cameron’s claim that metaphor should be studied only with reference to its discourse context (2007a: 112). Only discourse features of metaphor may point at its potential and role in dialogic interaction. Cameron’s Discourse Dynamics Framework is definitely an appropriate tool for the analysis of metaphor in its full context of use: it allows not only for quantitative analysis of metaphor, but also pays enough attention to the qualitative study of this phenomenon. The very name of the approach suggests that metaphor is perceived as an emergent phenomenon conditioned by the continuous evolution of talk. As could have been observed, the DDF puts forward its own research strategies, conditions for metaphor identification and its own terminology. What is also important, the framework defines different metaphor types such as linguistic or systematic metaphors at different levels of discourse and depicts the whole phenomenon of metaphor in talk as continuously built up and shaped through the dynamics of discourse.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 53-66
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English