Boundary Zone between Cultural Worlds or the Edge of the Dominant Culture? Two Conceptual Metaphors of Marginality

Kharlamov, Nikita

doi:10.1080/07256868.2012.735111

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“…Some of this work includes linguistic analysis of transgender, transsexual, and drag queen communicative patterns (Barrett, 1998(Barrett, , 1999. However, with the exception of a few brief references to metaphorical labels relevant to this discourse topic (Persson & Richards, 2008;Kharlamov, 2012), there exists no comprehensive metaphorical analysis of the cognitive models used to understand transgender identity or the transition process.…”

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Exploring the Metaphorical Models of Transgenderism

Lederer

2015

Metaphor and Symbol

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This article explores the metaphorical models English speakers employ in their understanding of transgenderism. Transgender is the term ascribed to those who have begun or completed a change in their sex characteristics from male to female or female to male. Using both qualitative and quantitative measures, I examine an archive of narrative data and a transition-specific corpus to show how spoken and written narrative support a spatially based representation of gender identity and transition. Two robust models are revealed in the data, each carrying a set of suppositions consequential to how speakers understand their lived experience. I show how metaphor-evoking trigger lexemes relate to each model and can be used jointly to demonstrate conceptual salience. This investigation should be seen as part of an ever-growing body of research directed at revealing the unconscious assumptions, which organize speakers' comprehension of complex topics with political relevance (cf.

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Section: Past Treatments Of Transgenderism and "Coming Out"mentioning

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Exploring the Metaphorical Models of Transgenderism

Lederer

2015

Metaphor and Symbol

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“…This study takes place against the backdrop of burgeoning research on critical metaphor and its application in different contexts [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [1], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [17]. Researchers have also applied and investigated conceptual metaphors focusing on different cultural settings [18], [19], [20].…”

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Conceptual Metaphors in the Hazaragi Community’s Institution of Marriage in Balochistan, Pakistan

Hussain

Ali²,

David³

2022

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Conceptual metaphor theory explains conceptual systems through cross-domain mappings. The mapping occurs on a conceptual level in a way that one conceptual domain is understood in terms of another conceptual domain. It also shows how target domain is perceived or understood through numerous source domains. Daily life experiences of people create patterns of understanding and conceptual metaphors are used to utilise these patterns in our utterances about issues in the world. In this research paper, Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) conceptual metaphor theory and Grice’s (1975) implicature theory are used as theoretical frameworks to identify, study and interpret conceptual metaphors for marriage in the Hazaragi community in Balochistan, Pakistan. This study focusses on the institution of marriage as this institution carries rich conceptual domains and has many conceptual mappings. Data collected from the book on Hazaragi idioms and two Hazaragi dramas were used to identify and analyse five general categories which include marriage as a food, marriage as an expensive commodity, marriage as a friendship, marriage as a slavery, and marriage as a journey or time. The paper also explores implied conceptual metaphors for marriage which do not indicate the concept of marriage directly. In short, this study discusses how conceptual metaphors in the institution of marriage depict Hazaragi culture and tradition.

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