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Aug 30, 2020 · The use of metaphorical frames does not entail a one-size-fits-all approach. Studies indicate that domain experts and journalists (often novices to the specific new technology) differ in their metaphor use. Academics (domain experts) generally use fewer metaphors than journalists (Skorczynska and Deignan, 2006; Steen et al., 2010).
- Ellen Droog, Christian Burgers, Kerk F. Kee
- 2020
This is in line with previous research (Skorczynska and Deignan, 2006), which showed that domain experts use fewer types of metaphors than journalists. This gives us a first indication, that in the process of creating frames, journalists generate many source domains that are not used by experts, which means that they, to an extent, draw on their own frames when conceptualizing cyberinfrastructure.
- Christian Burgers
Jan 1, 2010 · As to the six target domain sets, the unsurprising finding is that target domain coherence in adjacent pairs is more frequent than source domain coherence, because speakers tend to stick to a topic they talk about, even when using different (source-domain-related) kinds of metaphors for it (Table 7). M.
- Michael Kimmel
- 2010
Aug 30, 2020 · In particular, we investigated the role of metaphors in the frame-building of cyberinfrastructure during its early development, and contrast the metaphorical framing of cyberinfrastructure by journalists in a corpus of US news texts (Study 1) with the metaphorical framing of experts in a corpus of interviews (Study 2).
- Ellen Droog, Christian Burgers, Kerk F. Kee
- 2020
Aug 30, 2020 · The role of metaphors in the frame-building of cyberinfrastructure during its early development is investigated, and the metaphorical framing of cyberInfrastructure by journalists and experts in a corpus of US news texts is contrasted. Journalists and experts contribute to the creation of frames (frame-building) of innovations. However, little is known about the specific contribution of these ...
The detailed metaphor analysis shows that the use of metaphors in the media serves a two-fold purpose: first, to catch the readers’ attention and second, to shape the readers’ attitude to the current political situation. The obtained data give insight on the cultural-cognitive model of the pandemic.
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May 3, 2016 · This paper explores what metaphors have been used in association with journalism in the pages of the British Journalism Review since the closure of the News of the World. Do metaphorical articulations of the current role and image of journalism demonstrate an awareness among journalists of changes in its values or do they rather tend to reinforce more traditional attitudes to a practice under ...
