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.

伊斯兰恐怖主义是一个多方面的、具有重要政治意义的和令人费解的现象，它必然会被隐喻性地说明。显然，隐喻特别用来指抽象和神秘的条件和过程。“关于恐怖主义的隐喻”项目迄今开展的工作表明，在2001年9月11日恐怖袭击之后，在德国的公共话语中，隐喻在描述和描述事件、其后果和一般的伊斯兰恐怖主义方面发挥了突出作用。在整个项目期间收集的德国媒体对恐怖袭击的大量报道为分析提供了基础。这些文本主要涉及2001年9月11日的袭击。然而，2001年之前的相关攻击也被考虑在内，以便能够在语料库基础上比较和控制结果。除了耗时的代表性语料库（超过100，000个文本）的构建之外，迄今为止所进行的工作主要集中在从语言学角度对主要隐喻类型的近似分类上。此外，通过隐喻传达的概念化的分析开始。我们能够表明，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，它们极大地促进了文本的情感潜力。根据信息结构和视角的不同，隐喻性描述语可以对语篇进行相对化或强化。在要求的时间内，应执行具体的隐喻和隐喻星座的进一步和更详细的分析，以扩大以前检查的研究问题，并描述和解释的参考构成以及这些语言结构的说服力。