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Framing terrorism through conceptual metaphors

Framing des Begriffs Terrorismus durch konzeptuelle Metaphern: eine Analyse der Konzeptualisierung des Begriffs Terrorismus im 21sten Jahrhundert durch Republikaner und Demokraten im US Kongress
Authors: Moro, Monika;

Framing terrorism through conceptual metaphors

Abstract

Der primäre Fokus dieser Diplomarbeit liegt darauf, das politische Framing des Begriffs TERRORISMUS und anderen verwandten Begriffen, wie etwas ISIS oder Syrien, innerhalb Reden im US Kongress durch die Verwendung konzeptueller Metaphern zu untersuchen. Diese Forschung ist gefolgt von einer zweiten Analyse, welche untersucht welchen Effekt der spezifische Kontext von Terrorismus auf die konzeptuelle Metapher DIE NATION IST EINE FAMILIE (Lakoff 2002) hat. Basierend auf einem Korpus, welcher aus republikanischen und demokratischen Reden die im 114sten US Kongress abgehalten wurden zusammengesetzt ist, wurden zwei Metapher-Struktur Analysen (Stefanowitsch 2006) ausgeführt. Die erste Metapher-Struktur Analyse hat gezeigt, dass Demokraten und Republikaner häufig Terrorismus, sowie die Terrororganisation ISIS und die Religion Islam durch Personifikation vermittelt werden. Hingegen werden Muslime als homogene Masse gesehen und Syrien als ein Container welche versagt hat ISIS in seinen Grenzen zu halten. Die Ergebnisse der zweiten Metapher-Struktur Analyse verdeutlichen, dass der spezielle Kontext von Terrorismus die Wichtigkeit der Familien Metapher reduziert und stattdessen andere zugrundeliegende konzeptuelle Metaphern hervorhebt, wie beispielsweise die republikanische Vermittlung von Obama als einen demokratischen Dämon oder die demokratische Konzeptualisierung von politischem Fortschritt als eine körperliche Vorwärtsbewegung. Diese Ergebnisse zeigen, dass konzeptuelle Metaphern politische Sprache und Denken im Rahmen der Diskussion um Terrorismus strukturieren.

The primary purpose of this thesis is to investigate the framing of TERRORISM and related domains, such as ISIS or SYRIA, in the US Congress through conceptual metaphors. This investigation is followed by a secondary analysis that is specifically concerned with the effect that the specific context of terrorism has on the conceptual metaphor THE NATION AS FAMILY (Lakoff 2002). Based on a corpus composed of speeches given by republican and democratic speakers in 114th US Congress, two metaphorical pattern analyses (Stefanowitsch 2006) were conducted. The first metaphorical pattern analysis concluded that democrats and republicans most frequently framed terrorism, the terrorist organisation ISIS and Islam through the concept of personification, whereas Muslims are framed as a homogenous mass and Syria as a container that has failed to contain ISIS. The results of the second metaphorical pattern analysis indicated that the specific context of terrorism reduced the importance of the family metaphor and foregrounds other underlying conceptual metaphors, such as the republican framing of Obama as a democratic demon or the democratic conceptualisation of POLITICAL IMPROVEMENT as a FORWARD MOTION. These results suggest that conceptual metaphors indeed structure political language and thought when issues related with terrorism are discussed.

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