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Unpacking Metaphor-related Prepositions in Political Discourse: Routledge Research on New Waves in Pragmatics

Autor Mokhtar Ounis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 apr 2025
This book explores the context around why English prepositions are used in figurative language. This volume will be of interest to scholars in pragmatics, metaphor and rhetoric studies, English language and historical linguistics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032439662
ISBN-10: 1032439661
Pagini: 108
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Editura: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Seria Routledge Research on New Waves in Pragmatics


Notă biografică

Mokhtar Ounis is a linguist who earned his PhD from the University of Toulon in France, where he conducted research on the use of conceptual metaphors in political communication. He has been a faculty member at the University of Hail in Saudi Arabia for ten years, where he has taught courses in linguistics and related fields.

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Contents
 
Preface
 
1.     Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1.  Defining key terms
1.2.  Scope of this study
1.3.  Structure of this book
2.     Chapter 2: Navigating Prepositions
2.1.  Defining prepositions
2.2.  Polysemy: networks and principles
2.3.  Cognitive grammar’s view of prepositions
2.4.  Prepositions’ cognitive potential
2.5.  Prepositions’ contextual dynamics
2.6.  Prepositions’ axiological framing
3.     Chapter 3: Metaphor: Insights from Classical and Cognitive Approaches
3.1.  Classical views on metaphor
3.2.  Cognitive view on metaphor
4.     Chapter 4: The Power of Prepositions in Political Discourse
4.1.  Political language
4.2.  The history of political discourse analysis
4.3.  The inaugural addresses and their generic properties
4.4.  Conceptual metaphors in political discourse
4.5.  The evolution trends of inaugural addresses
4.6.  Metaphor variation and diachronic approach
5.     Chapter 5: A Prepositional Portrait: Corpus and Frequency
5.1.  Corpus linguistics and metaphor research
5.2.  The Inaugural Corpus
5.3.  The prepositions’ frequency patterns
5.4.  Tracking the preposition-to-word ratio
6.     Chapter 6 Unpacking Metaphorical Patterns
6.1.  Conceptual mappings of the metaphor-related prepositions
6.2.  System metaphors and cross-system mapping
6.3.  The coherence of metaphors
6.4.  Prepositions and their metonymic basis
6.5.  Conceptual notation revisited
7.     Chapter 7: Beyond Spatial Metaphors
7.1.  The cognitive model: an overview
7.2.  Conceptual identity
7.3.  Conceptual space
8.     Chapter 8: Tracing Patterns of Change and Stability
8.1.  Metaphor variations
8.2.  Patterns of diachronic variations
9.     Chapter 9: Concluding Remarks
9.1.  How are prepositions distributedin the Inaugural Corpus?
9.2.  What is the conceptual basis of metaphor-related prepositions?
9.3.  How do metaphor-related prepositions mix?
9.4.  Do metaphor-related prepositions reflect any systematic conceptualizations?
9.5.  How do metaphor-related prepositions vary across history?
9.6.  Final words
Index