Argumentative Functions of Metaphors: How can Metaphors Trigger Resistance?

Authors
Publication date 2018
Host editors
  • S. Oswald
  • D. Maillat
Book title Argumentation and Inference
Book subtitle Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Argumentation
ISBN
  • 9781848902848
Series Studies in logic: Logic and argumentation
Event 2nd European Conference on Argumentation
Volume | Issue number 2
Pages (from-to) 909-924
Publisher London: College Publications
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract This paper investigates what functions metaphors can have in argumentation and how they may provoke resistance. The pragma-dialectical theory and Steen’s (2008) 3D-model of metaphor are integrated to determine the possible uses of ‘deliberate’ metaphor in argumentation. Based on case studies, it is argued that deliberate metaphors can not only function as single analogy arguments, but also as complex argumentation consisting of both analogy and e.g. causal or symptomatic arguments, that each may counter resistance.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Other links http://ecargument.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ECA2017-Info-Vol-II.pdf https://www.collegepublications.co.uk/logic/sla/?00011
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