National conceptualisations of the body politic : cultural experience and political imagination / Andreas Musolff.
Musolff, Andreas, author.
2021
P325.5.M47 .M87 2021eb
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Title National conceptualisations of the body politic : cultural experience and political imagination / Andreas Musolff.
Author Musolff, Andreas, author.
ISBN 9789811587405 (electronic bk.)
981158740X (electronic bk.)
9789811587399
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8740-5
Published Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-15-8740-5 doi
Call Number P325.5.M47 .M87 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 401/.43
306.44
Summary This book presents the results of a large-scale experiment into interpretations of the metaphor "the Nation as a Body" among 1,800+ respondents from 30 linguistic and cultural backgrounds. In this first account of an empirical study of cross-cultural global metaphor interpretation of that scale, Musolff confirms that the meanings of metaphors are complex, culturally mediated and may differ for senders and recipients. The book provides a historical and cultural map of the traditions underlying differences in how the nation as a body or, "the body politic" is understood. Musolff challenges the hypotheses of the universality of "the nation" as a predominantly male-gendered and hierarchically organized concept and, in so doing, puts into question some of the key presuppositions of traditional historical and cognitive approaches to metaphor. For scholars and students of figurative language, the book lays out methodological foundations for cross-cultural metaphor comparison and reveals hidden meaning differences in political metaphor in English as lingua franca
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Series Cultural linguistics.
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Figurative Conceptualisations of the Nation(-State)
Nation, Nationalism and Metaphor
Political Discourse
Cultural Conceptualisations of the Nation as a Body or Person: Scenario Analysis of Metaphor Interpretations
The Nation as a Body or Person in the English L1 Sample
The Nation as a Body or Person in the German L1 Sample and Other Germanic L1 Samples: Dutch, Norwegian
The Nation as a Body or Person in Romance L1 Language Samples: Italian, Romanian, Spanish, French and Portuguese
The Nation as a Body or Person in Slavic L1-Language Samples: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Serbian, Croatian and Bulgarian
The Nation as a Body or Person in Other European L1 Language Samples: Hungarian, Lithuanian and Greek
The Nation as a Body or Person in L1 Language Samples from Middle Eastern Countries: Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Israel, Pakistan
Understanding the Nation as Body/Person from Asian Perspectives: China and Japan
Cultural Variation in Figurative Scenarios of the Nation's Body and/or Person.

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