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Washing the Brain – Metaphor and Hidden Ideology : Metaphor and Hidden Ideology.
Title:
Washing the Brain – Metaphor and Hidden Ideology : Metaphor and Hidden Ideology.
Author:
Goatly, Andrew.
ISBN:
9789027292933
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (452 pages)
Contents:
Washing the Brain - Metaphor and Hidden Ideology -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Typographical conventions -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Preface -- section 1 -- chapter 1 -- Introducing metaphor -- 1.1 Some terms for analysing metaphors -- 1.2 Inter-relations between metaphors -- 1.3 The theory of conceptual metaphor -- 1.4 Characterising conceptual metaphors and metaphor themes -- 1.5 Literal language, conventional metaphor and original metaphor -- 1.6 Convention, commonsense and latent ideology -- 1.7 Conclusion: CATEGORY IS DIVIDED AREA -- chapter 2 -- Metaphors of power -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 IMPORTANT IS BIG, POWER / CONTROL IS ABOVE, IMPORTANCE / STATUS IS HIGH -- 2.3 IMPORTANT IS CENTRAL -- 2.4 RACE IS COLOUR, GOOD IS PURE / CLEAN / WHITE -- 2.5 DISEASE IS INVASION -- 2.6 ACTIVITY IS MOVEMENT FORWARDS and the Cult of Speed -- 2.7 Time and space metaphors -- 2.8 TIME IS MONEY / COMMODITY -- 2.9 Education, socialisation and time: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone -- 2.10 ACTIVITY IS FIGHTING -- 2.11 The adversarial system in law, politics, the media and philosophy. -- 2.12 SEX IS VIOLENCE and rape -- 2.13 Summary -- chapter 3 -- Metaphors for humans and the living world -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 human is food -- 3.3 Life as a commodity -- 3.4 QUALITY IS MONEY/WEALTH -- 3.4.1 Privatisation of natural "resources". -- 3.5 ORGANISATION / SYSTEM IS MACHINE -- 3.6 HUMAN IS MACHINE -- 3.6.1 Lexical evidence for the prevalence of the metaphor -- 3.6.2 Science, technology and the mind / body as machine -- 3.6.3 Objections to mechanistic views of humans -- 3.6.4 The Santiago theory of cognition -- 3.6.5 Haraway's cyborg manifesto. -- 3.7 Summary -- chapter 4 -- Humans as animals, literal or metaphorical? -- 4.1 Impositive metaphors and subjective metaphors.

4.2 LANDSCAPE/WEATHER IS A HUMAN BODY? -- 4. 3 HUMAN IS ANIMAL? -- 4. 3. 1 Human as more or less / a kind of animal - selfish, competitive and aggressive. -- 4.3.2 Humans as more or less animals - but co-operative and symbiotic. -- 4.3.3 Humans as in many respects animals -- 4.3.4 Humans as possibly like animals in many respects, but ideally as different. -- 4.3.5 Humans as in some/few respects like an animal. -- 4.3.6 Human reductionism -- 4.4 Summary -- chapter 5 -- Interactions between metaphor themes -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Multivalency -- 5.2.1 Multivalency → MORE = GOOD -- 5.2.2 Multivalency → CHANGE = SUCCESS / DEVELOPMENT. -- 5.3 Evaluative oppositions -- 5.3.1 RELATIONSHIP IS PROXIMITY/COHESION v. FREEDOM IS SPACE TO MOVE -- 5.3.2 Change v. stability in Relationships. -- 5.4 A complex case of metaphor theme interaction -- 5.5 Diversification -- 5.5.1 Diverse metaphors for emotion -- 5.5.2 Diverse metaphors for education -- 5.5.3 Summary of diversification -- 5.6 Summary of metaphorical interactions -- Introduction to section 2 -- chapter 6 -- Are metaphorical themes universal? -- 6.1 Mind, body and culture -- 6.2 Metonymy as basis of all conceptual metaphor themes -- 6.3 EMOTION IS SENSE IMPRESSION -- 6.3.1 Damasio's theory of the emotions -- 6.3.2 EMOTION AS CAUSE OF EMOTION metonymy -- 6.3.3 Specific emotional / bodily responses -- 6.4 The cultural influences on emotion metaphors -- 6.4.1 Metaphor themes for anger in English -- 6.4.2 Cultural variations in metaphor themes for anger -- 6.4.3 Humoral theory and the body-cultural history debate -- 6.5 Challenges to the universality of conceptual metaphor themes. -- 6.5.1 No such exact target concept exists in one culture / languageas exists in another. -- 6.5.2 No such exact source concept exists in one culture / language as exists in another -- 6.5.3 Target varies with the source.

6.5.4 Sources and targets are paired differently -- 6.5.5 Different grounds or partial mapping of potential correspondences. -- 6.5.6 General identity of pairing with specific differences -- 6.6 Grady primary metaphors and multivalency -- 6.7 Questioning the metonymic basis of metaphor themes -- 6.8 The body as biological or historical and cultural? -- chapter 7 -- Grammar, metaphor and ecology -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Noun-Verb / Thing-Process construction -- 7.3 The Typical Clause and Canonical Events -- 7.4 Canonical events, the Newtonian world-view and industrialisation -- 7.4.1 Industrialising nature -- 7.4.2 The role of ideological metaphors in the industrialisation of nature -- 7.5 Modern scientific challenges to Newtonian dynamics -- 7.6 Congruent language and grammatical metaphor -- 7.7 Grammatical metaphors for modern science -- 7.7.1 Activation of tokens -- 7.7.2 Activation of experiences (phenomena) -- 7.7.3 Ambient structures or dummy subjects: prop it and existential there -- 7.7.4 Activation of circumstances -- 7.7.5 Creative processes and cognate objects -- 7.7.6 Reciprocal and reflexive verbs -- 7.7.7 Ergativity -- 7.7.8 Nominalization -- 7.8 Niitsi'powahsin (Blackfoot) grammar as radical metaphor -- 7.8.1 Emphasis on "verbs" in Niitsi'powahsin -- 7.8.2 "Nominalisations" -- 7.8.3 Niitsi'powahsin (Blackfoot) speakers' perspectives -- 7.9 Other relevant aspects of Blackfoot world-view -- 7.10 Possession -- 7.10.1 Action schema -- 7.10.2 Location, existence and other schemas -- 7.10.3 Ideology and the action schema -- 7.11 Conclusion and summary: process philosophies and ideologies -- chapter 8 -- Capitalism and the developmentof ideological metaphors -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The ideological tradition of capitalist economic philosophy -- 8.2.1 Competition and conflict -- 8.2.2 Self-interest, individualism and the family.

8.2.3 Man is animal -- 8.2.4 Property -- 8.2.5 Summary -- 8.2.6 Newtonian influence on economic philosophers -- 8.2.7 Man and society as machines -- 8.2.8 Quality and quantity -- 8.2.9 QUALITY IS WEALTH/MONEY -- 8.2.10 Economic virtues and TIME IS MONEY/COMMODITY -- 8.2.11 Progressivism in Darwin: CHANGE = GOOD -- 8.2.12 Capitalist economic philosophers, experientialism and the contemporary theory of metaphor -- 8.3 A critique of Lakoff's moral politics -- 8.4 Reductionism or not? -- 8.4.1 Feyerabend, Prigogine and reductionism -- 8.4.2 Experiential cognitive science as reductionism -- 8.4.3 Literalisation, reductionism and ideology -- 8.4.4 A less-reductionist model of discourse -- 8.5 Envoi: a meditation on incarnation -- 8.6 Summary and conclusion -- Bibliography -- Main index -- Name and author index -- Index of languages -- Index of metonymy themes (X AS Y) metaphor themes (X IS Y), metaphor equations (X = Y) and theme reversals* -- The series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture.
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 Metalude, 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.
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