Current Conceptualization of Terrorism - explicated by metaphor use in public discourse after the 11. September 2001

当前恐怖主义的概念化——通过 2001 年 9 月 11 日之后公共话语中的隐喻使用进行解释

• 批准号: 146454016
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Monika Schwarz-Friesel
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Sprache und Kommunikation
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2008-12-31 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/146454016?language=en
• 关键词: Current; Conceptualization; Terrorism; explicated; metaphor

As a multifaceted, politically important and inexplicable phenomenon, Islamic terrorism is bound to be illustrated metaphorically. Metaphors, obviously, are used particularly to refer to abstract and enigmatic conditions and processes. The work carried out so far in the project "Metaphors on terror" is able to demonstrate that within public German discourse, after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, metaphors played a prominent role in describing and characterizing the events, their consequences and Islamic terrorism in general. A large corpus of German media coverage of terrorist attacks collected throughout the project offers a base for the analysis. The texts deal primarily with the attacks of September 11th, 2001. However, relevant attacks prior to 2001 are also taken into consideration to be able to compare and control the results on a corpus-base.Alongside the time-consuming construction of a representative corpus (of over 100,000 texts), the work carried out hitherto focused on the approximate classification of dominant types of metaphor from a linguistic perspective. In addition, analysis of the conceptualizations conveyed via metaphors was initiated. We were able to show that metaphors are often used persuasively to exhibit the potential dangers of terrorism. Thereby, they contribute immensely to the emotional potential of the texts. Descriptions coded metaphorically can be employed to relativize or to intensify the text according to information structure and perspective. Within the requested time-period, further and more detailed analysis of specific metaphors and metaphor constellations shall be executed to expand the previously examined research questions and describe and explain the constitution of the reference as well as the persuasive potential of these linguistic constructions.

作为一种多方面的、具有重要政治意义且难以解释的现象，伊斯兰恐怖主义必然会被用隐喻来说明。显然，隐喻特别用于指代抽象和神秘的条件和过程。 “关于恐怖的隐喻”项目迄今为止所开展的工作能够证明，在 2001 年 9 月 11 日的恐怖袭击之后，在德国公共话语中，隐喻在描述和描述事件、其后果和伊斯兰教义方面发挥了重要作用。一般性的恐怖主义。在整个项目中收集的大量德国媒体对恐怖袭击的报道为分析提供了基础。这些文本主要处理 2001 年 9 月 11 日的攻击。但是，也考虑了 2001 年之前的相关攻击，以便能够在语料库上比较和控制结果。此外，代表性语料库的构建也很耗时（超过 100,000 个文本），迄今为止所开展的工作集中于从语言学角度对隐喻的主要类型进行近似分类。此外，还开始对通过隐喻传达的概念进行分析。我们能够证明，隐喻经常被有说服力地用来展示恐怖主义的潜在危险。因此，它们对文本的情感潜力做出了巨大贡献。隐喻编码的描述可用于根据信息结构和视角来相对化或强化文本。在要求的时间内，应对特定隐喻和隐喻星座进行进一步和更详细的分析，以扩展先前审查的研究问题，并描述和解释参考的构成以及这些语言结构的说服潜力。