2003
DOI: 10.1016/s0889-4906(02)00006-6
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Metaphor and economics: the case of growth

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“…Conceptual metaphors play a key role in the defi nition of essential economic concepts and make it easier for readers to understand abstract and complex fi nancial concepts (Henderson 1994;Charteris-Black 2000;White 2003;Musolff 2004;Rojo/Orts 2010). When used in economic and business texts, they help to convey the conceptualization of the economy, growth, market movements, etc., through dead or cliché metaphors, or through other devices like alliteration and puns, manipulation of idioms or popular sayings (Espunya/Zabalbescoa 2003).…”
Section: Metaphorical Patterns In Krugman and Garicanomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Conceptual metaphors play a key role in the defi nition of essential economic concepts and make it easier for readers to understand abstract and complex fi nancial concepts (Henderson 1994;Charteris-Black 2000;White 2003;Musolff 2004;Rojo/Orts 2010). When used in economic and business texts, they help to convey the conceptualization of the economy, growth, market movements, etc., through dead or cliché metaphors, or through other devices like alliteration and puns, manipulation of idioms or popular sayings (Espunya/Zabalbescoa 2003).…”
Section: Metaphorical Patterns In Krugman and Garicanomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Source and target are either in different taxonomic domains and not linked by a pragmatic function, or they are in different functional domains " (2011: 53). The number of studies which have demonstrated the ubiquity of metaphor and its usefulness as a cognitive tool to understand abstract concepts by way of more concrete ones has proliferated in specialised fields, such as those of Business, Economics and Finance (Cortés de los Ríos 2007;Henderson 1986;Herrera 2008;Herrera andWhite 2000, 2012;Langer 2015;Serón 2005;Skorczynska 2010;Smith 1995;Wang et al 2013;White 1997White , 2003White , 2004among others). Metaphors in business texts are not merely used for explanatory purposes but they also have become an integrated part of its language, and serve as an indispensable cognitive mechanism forming a constitutive part of people's conceptual framework.…”
Section: Theoretical Background: Metaphorical Competence In Foreign Lmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…He analysed Business development with reference to a natural cycle of growth, change and decay. The organism conceptual metaphor is a type of metaphor with great generative power (CharterisBlack 2000; White 2003). Reehorst (2012) states that the source domains that are regularly used to predicate something about the state of the economy are:…”
Section: Theoretical Background: Metaphorical Competence In Foreign Lmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…White (2003) noticed that a range of adjectives collocated with metaphorical growth in a corpus of Financial Times texts, indicating conventional metaphors more often than novel ones. Stubbs (Stubbs 1995: 384-385) observed that big and small occurred in metaphorical language, such as big business , big gun , small fry , and small beer .…”
Section: Previous Literature On Collocation and Metaphormentioning
confidence: 99%