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Milena Podolsak

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Contact

Name and title: Milena Podolsak

milena.podolsak@su.se

Workplace: The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism

Visiting address

Room D548

Universitetsvägen 10 D

Postal address

Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet

106 91 Stockholm

Research groups

Network Language and Power

Language and power as a field of study has a long tradition, but it has become more relevant in recent years due to the rise of populism and societies becoming increasingly polarised.

Language and societal challenges

Language and Social Challenges is one of the permanent research groups within Swedish and Scandinavian Languages at the Department of Swedish and Multilingualism. It brings together sociolinguistically and discourse analytically oriented researchers who are interested in linguistic issues in relation to social, ecological and economic sustainability.

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Links

LinkedIn Fighting a disease with metaphors (MetNet Scandinavia blog, March 27, 2020) Vart leder vägen framåt och vem tar Sverige dit? (föredrag, Språkrådsdagen 2022)

About me

In my ongoing PhD project, I analyse rhetorical effects of motion metaphors in Swedish political speeches 2009–2022. The overall aim of my analysis is to explain how systematic, conceptual metaphor systems function in a specialised discourse, how communicative purposes guide the use of both conventionalised and elaborated metaphors, and how political framing is achieved. The analysis focuses on the so-called non-correspondences in the metaphorial mapping from the source domain of CONCRETE MOTION to the target domain of POLITICS. Non-correspondences are defined as lexicogrammatical, semantical and conceptual elements that cannot be explained in terms of unidirectional projection from the source to target domain. By combining Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson 1980), Blending Theory (Fauconnier & Turner 2002) and Holistic Spatial Semantics (Zlatev et al. 2010), I seek to explore the role of such non-correspondences in the argumentative potential of metaphors.

Keywords: metaphors; motion; polysemy; Conceptual Metaphor Theory; Bleding Theory; political rhetoric; Swedish political speeches;

References

Fauconnier, Gilles & Mark Turner. 2002. The way we think. New York: Basic Books.

Lakoff, George & Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors We Live by. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press.

Zlatev, Jordan, Johan Blomberg, and Caroline David. 2010. “Translocation, Language and the Categorization of Experience.” Pp. 389–418 in Language, cognition and Space: The state of the art and new directions. Advances in Cognitive Linguistics, edited by V. Evans and P. Chilton. London: Equinox Publishing.

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