The Social Dimension of a Cognitive Grammar

Hawkins, Bruce

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“…In other words, ideology is a belief system perpetuating norms and values held by a group. The interplay between language and ideology has drawn linguists' attention (Fairclough, 1995(Fairclough, , 2004Fang, 2001;Hawkins, 1997;Kuo and Nakamura, 2005;Van Dijk, 1988, 2000 among others), their diverse theories and methods subsumed into what is now called critical discourse analysis (CDA). These writers have proven that ideology shapes the representation of any social issue.…”

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Conceptual metaphors for SARS: 'war' between whom?

Chiang

Duann

2007

Discourse & Society

107

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By analyzing naming strategies and conceptual metaphors for SARS in three major broadsheet newspapers, The Liberty Times and The United Daily News in Taiwan, and The People's Daily in China, this article demonstrates how the political agendas and underlying ideologies of newspapers permeate their use of metaphors. Taking critical metaphor analysis (Charteris-Black, 2004) as the theoretical framework, we analyze how the DISEASE IS WAR metaphor, in particular, constructs Self and Other, as well as several other metaphors (e.g. DISEASE IS A NATURAL DISASTER/ A DISASTER IN GENERAL). We argue that all the linguistic devices under consideration represent SARS as an issue in the domain of political rather than medical discourse.

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Conceptual metaphors for SARS: 'war' between whom?

Chiang

Duann

2007

Discourse & Society

107

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“…This position taken by Japanese reporters reveals a certain ideology. As Hodge and Kress (1993) and Hawkins (1997) allude, the Ehime maruGuriinbiru preference reflects and reinforces the prevailing world view of the Japanese society of which the reporters are a part.…”

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“…Supporting the paths that several linguistic and related research areas are taking, this study has illustrated that psychology-based concepts such as proximal ''insider'' and distal ''outsider'' play a role in how the linguistic sign ultimately ''means.'' As reviewed earlier, these concepts fall within the similar category of theoretical constructs, such as sensitivity to the reader (Grondelaers and Geeraerts 1998), social ideology (Hodge and Kress 1993;Hawkins 1997), and the distance between the writer and the subject matter (Emanatian 1997). The idea of the emotive perspective presented in this study embraces these theoretical constructs within itself.…”

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“…Although the current study does not discuss euphemism, the expressive function (specifically, the degree of sensitivity to the reader) suggested by Grondelaers and Geeraerts offers insight. Hawkins (1997), taking the position that ''cognitive grammar can and should attend to the sociopolitical aspects of language use' ' (1997: 21), discusses the icons and caricatures of well-known figures (e.g. Richard Nixon).…”

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In the name of a vessel: emotive perspectives in the reporting of the Ehime MaruGreeneville collision in a Japanese newspaper

Maynard¹

2002

Linguistics

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This paper analyzes referential forms that identify the Ehime Maru and the Greeneville, the two vessels involved in the February 9, 2001, collision off the coast of Hawaii. Analysis of 256 articles reporting the collision obtained from the Mainichi Shinbun newspaper internet site results in referential preferences for Ehime maru 'the Ehime Maru' and gensen 'nuclear submarine'. I argue that different levels of elaboration and specificity observed in these choices are motivated, in part, by the reporter's emotive perspective, based on proximal insider versus distal outsider positioning. Previous studies (including syntactic, discourse, and pragmatic accounts) on referential strategies, including the research area of anaphora, fail to fully explain the phenomenon under investigation. Through interpretive and quantitative approaches, I emphasize that a satisfactory account of referential forms cannot be reached unless one understands how the writer's emotivity plays a part in choosing referential forms.

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“…I preferred to read Fairclough as issuing me an invitation into CDA. Therefore, I approached this review as a linguist who, by affiliating with the cognitive linguistics of Lakoff (1987Lakoff ( , 1996 and Langacker (1987Langacker ( , 1991aLangacker ( , 1991b, is also outside the MIT-defined linguistics mainstream and who wants to learn to integrate CDA into my current work on iconographic texts (e.g., Hawkins 1995).…”

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Reviews : Critical Discourse Analysis. By Norman Fairclough. New York: Longman, 1995

Hawkins

1997

Journal of English Linguistics

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This collection of papers, written by Fairclough over the decade from 1983 to 1992, exhibits a significant range of issues taken up in his research program in critical discourse analysis (hereafter, CDA). Ten papers are grouped into four sections: A-Language, ideology and power (three papers); B-Discourse and sociocultural change (four papers); C-Textual analysis in social research (one paper); and D-Critical language awareness (two papers). To give the volume more coherence than it would have as a simple collection of papers, Fairclough provides a substantial &dquo;General Introduction&dquo; as well as shorter introductions for each of the four sections.

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The Social Dimension of a Cognitive Grammar

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Conceptual metaphors for SARS: 'war' between whom?

Conceptual metaphors for SARS: 'war' between whom?

In the name of a vessel: emotive perspectives in the reporting of the Ehime MaruGreeneville collision in a Japanese newspaper

Reviews : Critical Discourse Analysis. By Norman Fairclough. New York: Longman, 1995

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