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In:New Vistas in Research on Metaphor and Metonymy: Their contexts and interaction across discourse types and modalities
Edited by Robert Kiełtyka, Mario Brdar, Marcin Kudła and Goran Milić
[Human Cognitive Processing 82] 2027
► pp. 214–242

Chapter 8
Schematicity of metaphors as a euphemistic strategy

 | University of Osijek
 | University of Osijek
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Abstract
The focus of this study is on the top-down influence of migration experts and refugee protection institutions on migration discourse in the public sphere in Croatia. The aim of this study is to examine the euphemistic effect of the metaphor’s degree of schematicity (Clausner & Croft, 1997), in this case of the migration domain, as a schematic representation of motion instigated by the generic for specific metonymy. A comparison is made between the data set from our previous research on migration discourse (Gradečak et al., 2021) with the data elicited form the MaCoCu corpus of Croatian. The secondary research goal was to observe the use of the English construction as it was adopted in the Croatian expert discourse and the media and compare them to the use of the constructions with water as the source domain.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Top-down and bottom-up processes in migration discourse
  • 2.Theoretical prerequisites
    • 2.1Humanitarian and securitarian aspects of migration discourse in Croatia
    • 2.2Cognitive Linguistic approach to CDA
      • 2.2.1The role of metaphor and metonymy, framing and image schemas
      • 2.2.2Schematization as a euphemistic strategy in migration-related discourse
  • 3.Methodology
  • 4.Results
  • 5.Discussion
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Author queries
  • Notes
  • Internet sources
  • References
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