Corpus-assisted metaphor analysis of pregnancy discourse

语料库辅助的妊娠话语隐喻分析

• 批准号: 2727066
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2727066
• 关键词: Corpus; assisted; metaphor; analysis; pregnancy

The voices of people who have actually experienced pregnancy are not dominant in public discourses around pregnancy. This contributes to the discrimination faced by pregnant individuals as their voices are invisible in mainstream discourse and policymaking. The aim of this research is to compare those public pregnancy discourses with the discourses of those with lived experience, and thus to highlight sources of discrimination.My research approaches this comparison through the analysis of metaphor as a linguistic device for understanding and conceptualising one concept as another. Metaphor affords the researcher direct access to the way people think. Embodied metaphor analysis, in particular, explores how metaphorical mappings are formed by the ways in which people perceive their bodies and how their bodies interact with their environment (see Littlemore 2019). This is especially important to consider during pregnancy when there is a change in how a person may view their body caused by the new life developing and a conflict within the liminal space between one body and two.In the field of health communication, research has identified metaphor, and metonymy (Semino 2010), to be useful for conveying lived experiences (especially those involving emotions and feelings of pain) that might be otherwise difficult for others to conceptualise and understand, and also as a way to manage a new sense of self after a life-changing illness (Demjen and Semino 2017; Semino et al., 2017; Gibbs and Franks, 2002). Littlemore and Turner (2019) found the same to be true of metaphors used by those who have experienced pregnancy loss during the Death Before Birth project that examined the experiences of those who had faced pregnancy loss. This present project aims to build upon the work of this literature, particularly the work of Littlemore and her team, with a focus on pregnancy rather than its loss, which encompasses a large but often invisible group in society. As previously mentioned, pregnant voices are often absent in public discourses but dominant in the discourses of communities like parenting forums, which serve as a powerful online community for parents and expecting parents (see Pedersen and Smithson, 2013; Pedersen, 2016; Mackenzie, 2018). A comparative metaphor analysis can reveal differences in the source concepts used based on audience, genre, and author experience (see Deignan et al., 2013; Semino et al., 2013). The comparison of metaphor use between authors of differing pregnancy experiences and forum and public discourse will serve as a fruitful analysis.Corpus analysis shows patterns in language and what is most salient. I have already created three corpora of pregnancy discourse from pregnancy forum Mumsnet, pregnancy magazines, and British newspapers. Corpus software will be used to find metaphors used to describe pregnancy and the emotional and physical feelings associated with it. Metaphors will be identified through keyword and key semantic analysis.Research questions:1. What are the salient metaphors found in each corpus and how do they compare across corpora?2. What do these metaphors say about the ways in which different groups and media types think aboutpregnancy?

真正经历过怀孕的人的声音在围绕怀孕的公共话语中并不占主导地位。这加剧了孕妇面临的歧视，因为她们的声音在主流话语和决策中是不可见的。本研究的目的是通过分析隐喻作为一种理解和概念化一个概念的语言手段，将这些公开的怀孕话语与那些有生活经历的话语进行比较，从而突出歧视的根源。隐喻为研究者提供了直接了解人们思维方式的途径。特别是隐喻分析，探索了人们感知身体的方式以及他们的身体如何与环境相互作用而形成的隐喻映射（见Littlemore 2019）。在怀孕期间，当一个人对自己身体的看法发生变化时，这一点尤其重要，因为新生命的发展和一个身体与两个身体之间的界限空间的冲突会引起这种变化。（Semino 2010），用于传达生活经验（特别是那些涉及情绪和痛苦的感觉），否则可能很难为他人概念化和理解，也是在改变生活的疾病后管理新的自我意识的一种方式（Demjen和Semino 2017; Semino等人，2017年;吉布斯和弗兰克斯，2002年）。Littlemore和Turner（2019）发现，那些在出生前死亡项目中经历过怀孕失败的人所使用的隐喻也是如此，该项目研究了那些面临怀孕失败的人的经历。本项目旨在建立在这一文献的工作，特别是Littlemore和她的团队的工作，重点是怀孕，而不是其损失，其中包括一个庞大的，但往往是无形的社会群体。如前所述，怀孕的声音通常不在公共话语中，但在育儿论坛等社区的话语中占主导地位，这些论坛是父母和准父母的强大在线社区（见Pedersen和Smithson，2013; Pedersen，2016;麦肯齐，2018）。比较隐喻分析可以揭示基于受众、体裁和作者经验所使用的源概念的差异（参见Deignan等人，2013; Semino等人，2013年）。对比不同怀孕经历的作者和论坛及公众话语中隐喻的使用将是一个富有成效的分析。语料库分析显示了语言中的模式和最突出的。我已经从怀孕论坛Mumsnet，怀孕杂志和英国报纸上创建了三个怀孕话语语料库。语料库软件将被用来寻找隐喻用来描述怀孕和与之相关的情感和身体的感觉。隐喻将通过关键字和关键语义分析来识别。研究问题：1。在每个语料库中发现的突出隐喻是什么？它们在不同语料库中的比较情况如何？2.这些隐喻说明了不同群体和媒体类型对怀孕的看法？