Neither confusing cacophony nor culinary complements - A case study of mixed metaphors for genomic science
Neither confusing cacophony nor culinary complements - A case study of mixed metaphors for genomic science
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10.1177/0741088303261651
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发表时间：
2004-01-01
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1.9
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Ceccarelli, L
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作者：
Ceccarelli, L
本文对比尔·克林顿、托尼·布莱尔、弗朗西斯·柯林斯和克雷格·文特尔于 2000 年 6 月 26 日在白宫宣布人类基因组计划完成的仪式上发表的演讲进行了仔细的修辞解读。具体来说，它着眼于每位演讲者用来描述基因组科学家活动的隐喻。有关基因组的科学活动被比喻为制作地图、开辟边界、打开金库、绘制蓝图、阅读说明书和学习语言等行为。本文认为，这些隐喻及其相互作用的方式可能会过度简化所讨论的主题，并且可能与作者明确宣称的道德目标相冲突。在这个特殊的案例研究中，对隐喻载体之间相互作用的检查修正了作者在对基因组科学中混合隐喻的问题和可能性的理论反思中提出的早期主张。
This article undertakes a close rhetorical reading of the speeches given by Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Francis Collins, and Craig Venter on June 26, 2000, at the White House ceremony announcing the completion of the Human Genome Project. Specifically, it looks at the metaphors used by each speaker to describe the activity of genomic scientists. Scientific activity regarding the genome was metaphorically compared to such actions as producing a map, opening a frontier, unlocking a vault, drawing a blueprint, reading an instruction manual, and learning a language. This article argues that these metaphors and the way in which they interact with each other can oversimplify the subject matter under discussion and can conflict with the ethical goals that the authors explicitly proclaim. An examination of the interaction between metaphorical vehicles in this particular case study amends sonic earlier claims that the author made in a theoretical reflection on the problems and the possibilities of mixed metaphors in genomic science.