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LINGUIST List 18.578

Wed Feb 21 2007

Books: Discourse Analysis/Sociolinguistics: Goatly

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        1.    Paul Peranteau, Washing the Brain - Metaphor and Hidden Ideology: Goatly
Message 1: Washing the Brain - Metaphor and Hidden Ideology: Goatly
Date: 20-Feb-2007
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Washing the Brain - Metaphor and Hidden Ideology: Goatly


Title: Washing the Brain - Metaphor and Hidden Ideology
Series Title: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 23
Published: 2007
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=DAPSAC%2023

Author: Andrew Goatly
Hardback: ISBN: 9027227136 Pages: 456 Price: U.S. $ 144.00
Abstract:

Contemporary metaphor theory has recently begun to address the relation
between metaphor, culture and ideology. In this wide-ranging book, Andrew
Goatly, using lexical data from his database, investigates how conceptual
metaphor themes construct our thinking and social behaviour in fields as
diverse as architecture, engineering, education, genetics, ecology,
economics, politics, industrial time-management, medicine, immigration,
race, and sex. He argues that metaphor themes are created not only through
the universal body but also through cultural experience, so that an
apparently universal metaphor such as event-structure as realized in
English grammar is in fact culturally relative, compared with e.g. the
construal of 'cause and effect' in the Algonquin language Blackfoot.
Moreover, event-structure as a model is both scientifically reactionary
and, as the basis for technological mega-projects, has proved
environmentally harmful. Furthermore, the ideologies of early capitalism
created or exploited a selection of metaphor themes historically traceable
through Hobbes, Hume, Smith, Malthus and Darwin. These metaphorical
concepts support neo-Darwinian and neo-conservative ideologies apparent at
the beginning of the 21st century, ideologies underpinning our social and
environmental crises. The conclusion therefore recommends skepticism of
metaphor's reductionist tendencies.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                            Sociolinguistics

Written In: English (eng )

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