Universality and/or Cultural Specificity of Metaphors and Analogies? NATIONS as BODIES/PERSONS

Мусолфф, Андреас

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-90688-7_20

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“…Furthermore, metaphors are culturally-dependent [66]. For example, in the domain of depression, ( [67] p. 170) mention the metaphoric theme "depression is darkness" ("a dark cloud", "rainy day", etc.)…”

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Beyond the Semantic Web: Towards an Implicit Pragmatic Web and a Web of Social Representations

Haralambous

Lenca

2023

Future Internet

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Motivated by the distinction between semantics and pragmatics as sub-disciplines of linguistics, shortly after Tim Berners-Lee introduced the Semantic Web in 2001, there have been works on its extension to the “pragmatic level”. Twenty years later, the Semantic Web is more popular than ever, while little has been achieved in extending it into a Pragmatic Web. Social representations introduced by Serge Moscovici in the 1960s seem totally ignored by the information technology community even though they are strongly related to research on opinion mining and representation in social media. We, thus, recall the major results of academic research on the Pragmatic Web, followed by our proposal for an Implicit Pragmatic Web inspired by various sub-domains of the discipline of pragmatics. We further recall the basics of the social representations theory and discuss their potential implementations in a Web of Social Representations and thus their potential contribution towards at least a part of the future internet.

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Section: Metaphorsmentioning

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Beyond the Semantic Web: Towards an Implicit Pragmatic Web and a Web of Social Representations

Haralambous

Lenca

2023

Future Internet

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Figurativeness of the Japanese flag

Dyrmo

2024

RCL

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The analysis offered in this article applies the multilevel approach to conceptual metaphor to relief posters, created and distributed widely after the massive Japan 2011 earthquake. The aim of the analysis is to show in what way the multilevel approach to metaphor can be used to illustrate how the figurative meaning of relief posters emerges from the interactions between different levels of schematicity: from basic image schemas and domains, through contextually embedded semantic frames, finishing with metaphorical scenarios at the highest level of specificity and complexity. The present analysis also shows the potential applicability of image schemas as the guiding analytical element, serving as the departure point for the unfolding metaphorical and metonymical interpretation of a multimodal message. Accordingly, it has been shown how the image schemas of part-whole, full-empty, process and force aid the analysis of metaphoricity and how the central metonymic element of the national flag co-constructs the figurative reading of the posters.

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Universality and/or Cultural Specificity of Metaphors and Analogies? NATIONS as BODIES/PERSONS

Cited by 2 publications

References 49 publications

Beyond the Semantic Web: Towards an Implicit Pragmatic Web and a Web of Social Representations

Beyond the Semantic Web: Towards an Implicit Pragmatic Web and a Web of Social Representations

Figurativeness of the Japanese flag

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