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

伊斯兰恐怖主义作为一种多面性的、具有重要政治意义的、令人费解的现象，必然要用隐喻来说明。显然，隐喻是专门用来指抽象和神秘的情况和过程的。到目前为止，在“隐喻与恐怖主义”项目中开展的工作能够证明，在2001年9月11日恐怖袭击之后的德国公共话语中，隐喻在描述和描述事件及其后果以及总体上的伊斯兰恐怖主义方面发挥了突出作用。整个项目收集了大量德国媒体对恐怖袭击的报道，为分析提供了基础。这些文本主要涉及2001年9月11日的袭击事件。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，迄今为止所开展的工作主要集中在从语言学角度对隐喻的主要类型进行大致分类。此外，还对隐喻所传达的概念化进行了分析。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，他们极大地促进了文本的情感潜力。隐喻性的描述可以根据信息结构和视角使文本相对化或强化。在要求的时间内，对具体的隐喻和隐喻群进行进一步和更详细的分析，以扩展之前研究的研究问题，描述和解释指称的构成以及这些语言结构的说服潜力。

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.