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Melanie Jong Tjien Fa

Bio: Melanie Jong Tjien Fa is an academic researcher from VU University Amsterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Metaphor & Creativity. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 2 publications receiving 7 citations.

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TL;DR: This article examined how politicians often use metaphors to frame their political agendas, such as Donald Trump's promise to “drain the swamp,” and found that the metaphor is used in three ways: without transformation, to paraphrase, explain and/or evaluate a statement by a political actor, with transformation of the target, which occurs either through narrowing or recasting, and with transforming of the source.

10 citations

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15 Jul 2020
TL;DR: This paper explored how metaphor production can be stimulated by different types of cues in an internet environment and found a correlation between actual and self-perceived creativity of the co-created metaphors.
Abstract: Metaphor production is a creative process of thinking out of the box, which can be of great communicative value to language users. In this study, we explored how metaphor production can be stimulated by different types of cues in an internet environment. Participants (N = 318) were invited to co-create a metaphorical campaign slogan in a social media setting with randomly selected sets of real campaign slogans. We measured how linguistic (metaphor markers) and social media cues (likes) prompt direct metaphor. Results show that the metaphor marker ‘so’ stimulated metaphor production. Likes for previously posted metaphorical slogans did not affect the creation of a metaphor. We found a correlation between the actual and self-perceived creativity of the co-created slogans. Besides, the co-created metaphors both echoed and deviated from previously posted campaign slogans, leading to different degrees of creativity. Co-creation in a social media setting seems a fruitful environment for metaphor production.

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01 Mar 2021-Lingua
TL;DR: The authors investigated the diachronic changes of economic metaphors focusing on the concept of free economy in a corpus of Hong Kong political discourse spanning two decades (1997-2017) and found that free economy metaphors have slightly decreased over time.

10 citations

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TL;DR: This paper analyzed the use of deliberate metaphors in political discourse produced by French-speaking Belgian regional parliamentarians during non-institutional political interviews and found that RMPs, when using non-deliberate metaphors, mostly rely on source domains such as construction, battle and relationships.
Abstract: This article analyses the use of (deliberate) metaphors in political discourse produced by French-speaking Belgian regional parliamentarians during non-institutional political interviews. The article first investigates if the use of deliberate metaphor limits itself to a particular type of political discourse (i.e. public and institutional political discourse) or if metaphor use is also found in other types of settings (i.e. non-institutional political discourse). Second, the article analyses the variation of deliberate metaphor use between political actors depending on gender, seniority and political affiliation. To this end, the article applies Steen’s (2008) three-dimensional model of metaphor analysis on biographical interviews conducted with French-speaking Belgian regional parliamentarians (RMPs). Our results indicate that RMPs, when using non-deliberate metaphors, mostly rely on source domains such as construction, battle and relationships. This is in contrast with the use of deliberate metaphors, where source domains like sports, nature and container take the upper hand.

8 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a typology of metaphorical humor in satirical news is introduced, showing that satirists can realize and switch between four different discursive modes through metaphors, i.e., humor, education, evaluation, and evaluation.
Abstract: An important challenge for communication scientists is to characterize and understand hybrid genres. Satirical news is such a hybrid genre and comprises a blend of the genres of comedy, news, and political opinion. This theoretical article aims to contribute to this discussion by further specifying the concept of discursive mode. Discursive modes designate certain communicative orientations toward a particular genre element. We make our argument concrete by introducing a typology of metaphorical humor in satirical news. Our humoristic metaphors in satirical news (HMSN) typology, demonstrates that satirists can realize and switch between 4 different discursive modes through metaphors. These discursive modes comprise different combinations of core rhetorical functions in satirical news (humor, education, and evaluation). We describe each type of metaphor in our typology and present a research agenda identifying key issues that require future research and empirical verification.

6 citations

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01 Mar 2019
TL;DR: In this paper, Populismusforschung hat bereits fruh auf die Normalisierung populistischer Strategien im Regierungsalltag westlicher Demokratien hingewiesen.
Abstract: Die Populismusforschung hat bereits fruh auf die Normalisierung populistischer Strategien im Regierungsalltag westlicher Demokratien hingewiesen. Durch aktuelle Entwicklungen, wie die Wahl Donald Trumps, ist deren politikwissenschaftliche Relevanz jedoch noch einmal deutlich gestiegen. Der Beitrag schliest an aktuelle Uberlegungen aus der diskurs- und praxistheoretischen sowie kultursoziologischen Populismusforschung an, in denen es weniger um die Messung politischer Einstellungen geht oder die Identifikation eines ideologischen Wesenskerns, sondern um die sprachliche Anpassungsfahigkeit (rechts-)populistischer Politik unter sich verandernden demokratischen Bedingungen. Es wird argumentiert, dass die Methodik der Narrativanalyse nutzlich ist, um den aktuellen Wahlerfolg rechtspopulistischer Parteien und Bewegungen in ihren kulturellen Resonanzbedingungen besser zu verstehen. Hierbei wird deutlich, dass populistische Erzahlstrategien mit einer kalkulierten Ambivalenz im Umgang mit normativen Kriterien arbeiten, zur Mobilisierung kollektiver Angste primar auf einer affektiven Ebene operieren und eine Volksnahe zum ‚einfachen Burger‘ inszenieren. Aus dem Repertoire populistischer Narrative zeigen wir anhand von drei Beispielen (Mythos des zu schutzenden Volkskorpers/die Verklarung der Heimat, die Uberlegenheit des Alltagswissens/die Verschworung der Fake News, die Rebellion gegen den Genderwahn/die Erneuerung des Patriarchats) aus unterschiedlichen nationalen Kontexten, wie sich die Verdichtung aus Erzahlstoffen, Emotionen und Bildern als Form politischer Kommunikation bewusst der Logik einer rationalen Argumentation widersetzt.

5 citations

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01 Jan 2021
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3 citations