"In times of crisis, how do people conceptualise and communicate their experiences through different forms and channels? How can original research in cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis and crisis studies advance our understanding of the ways in which we interact with and communicate about crisis events? In answering these questions, this volume examines the unique functions, features and applications of the metaphors and frames that emerge from and give shape to crisis-related discourses. The chapters in this volume present original concepts, approaches, authentic data and findings of crisis discourses in a wide range of organisational, political and personal contexts that affect a diverse body of language users and communities. This book will appeal to a broad readership in linguistics, sociological studies, cognitive sciences, crisis studies as well as language and communication researchers and practitioners"--.

• The Language of Crisis
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Constructing and communicating crisis discourse from cognitive, discursive and sociocultural perspectives
  • 1. Aims and contributions of the volume
  • 2. An overview of crisis and crisis management studies
  • 3. To study the language of crisis with a discourse and cognitive-based approach
    • 3.1 Analysing the discursive aspects within crisis-related discourse
    • 3.2 Exploring conceptual metaphors and frames with a discourse and cognitive-based approach
  • 4. The volume’s contributions to the studies of metaphors and frames in crisis discourse
  • 5. Overview of individual chapters’ original research and findings
  • 6. Scope and interest of the volume
  • References
• Part I. Investigating the language of financial and organisational crisis
• 1. Crisis Marketing through conceptual ontology in metaphor in financial reporting: “Decision”, “change” … and Right to Information?
  • 1. Metaphor theory and Crisis Marketing in stock market reporting
  • 2. Journalism ethics and metaphor: Truth, fairness and accuracy?
    • 2.1 Accuracy, truth and fairness
  • 3. Right to Information and metaphor: Towards more ethical financial journalism
  • 4. Crisis, decision and change
  • References
• 2. From economic crisis to austerity policies through conceptual metaphor: A corpus-based comparison of metaphors of crisis and austerity in the Portuguese press
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical and methodological background
  • 3. The metaphorical conceptualization of the financial crisis
    • 3.1 Propositional schemas
    • 3.2 Image schemas
    • 3.3 Event schemas
  • 4. The metaphorical conceptualization of austerity
    • 4.1 Propositional schemas
    • 4.2 Image schemas
    • 4.3 Event schemas
    • 4.4 Metaphors of austerity after 2011–2013
  • 5. Embodiment, ideology and morality of the metaphors of crisis and austerity
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• 3. Responding to organisational misbehaviour: The influence of public frames in social media
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Framing and the relevance of metaphor to public social media action
    • 2.1 Metaphor as framing
  • 3. Case studies and data retrieval
    • 3.1 Data and their retrieval
  • 4. Framing the steakhouse
    • 4.1 Two frames to discredit the steakhouse
  • 5. Framing the bank
    • 5.1 One frame to discredit the bank
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
• Part II. Understanding discourses of political conflicts
• 4. Turning the heart into a neighbour: (Re)framing Kosovo in Serbian political discourse
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical underpinnings
  • 3. Contextual background
  • 4. Data and analysis
  • 5. Results and discussion
    • 5.1 Conflicting metaphors for ‘Kosovo’
    • 5.2 ‘Kosovo’ under metonymic disguise
    • 5.3 (Re)framing Kosovo in Serbian political discourse?
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
• 5. “Today, the long Arab winter has begun to thaw”: A corpus-assisted discourse study of conceptual metaphors in political speeches about the Arab revolutions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Metaphor, political language and persuasion
  • 3. Corpus
  • 4. Method
  • 5. Findings and discussion
    • 5.1 Season metaphors
    • 5.2 Birth, pregnancy and family metaphors
    • 5.3 Natural forces/disasters metaphors
    • 5.4 Contagious diseases or healthy and unhealthy bodies
    • 5.5 Journey metaphors
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Political speeches and interviews
  • References
• 6. Metaphors for protest: The persuasive power of cross-domain mappings on demonstration posters against Stuttgart 21
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 Contextual background
    • 1.2 Research questions
  • 2. Conceptual metaphor theory: Three adjustments
    • 2.1 Terminological clarity
    • 2.2 Labeling conceptual mappings
    • 2.3 Context-dependent and discourse-pragmatic functions: Metaphor in cognitive linguistic approaches within critical discourse studies
  • 3. Data and methodology
  • 4. The language of protest exemplified by Stuttgart 21 demonstration posters
    • 4.1 The role of resistant discourses in formulating (counter-)ideologies
    • 4.2 Constructing a political crisis: The target concept DEMOCRACY
    • 4.3 The political myth of corruptive politicians: Crime and immoral behavior
    • 4.4 Expression of emotional attitude through violent metaphors
      • 4.4.1 DESTRUCTION, WAR and TERROR as source concepts
      • 4.4.2 Religious source domains: HELL and DEVIL
      • 4.4.3 Mental illness domains: DELUSION and INSANITY
      • 4.4.4 DARKNESS, DOOM and DEATH as source domains
    • 4.5 Demonization and personification through metaphor
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • References
• Part III. Studying personal crisis in psychotherapy and narrative
• 7. The ‘transformative’ power of metaphor: Assessing its unexplored potential at the crossroads between static and dynamic instances
  • 1. Introduction: Metaphor and practice, an overview
    • Existing Methodological Proposals using metaphor in the ‘psycho-practice’
    • Unexplored Potential? Towards an implemented definition of conceptual metaphor as ‘integrated’
  • 2. Redefining metaphor, for the sake of practice
  • 3. Metaphor-based and -driven counselling: Sketching a methodological framework
  • 4. Feedback on the transformative power of metaphor
  • 5. Discussion
  • Appendix
  • References
• 8. Co-constructing ‘crisis’ with metaphor: A quantitative approach to metaphor use in psychotherapy talk
  • 1. Crisis, psychotherapy, and metaphor
  • 2. A brief introduction to log-linear analysis
  • 3. Data and metaphor identification
  • 4. Variables
    • 4.1 Target
    • 4.2 Speaker
    • 4.3 Phase
    • 4.4 Function
  • 5. Inter-rater reliability
  • 6. Results
  • 7. Discussion
  • 8. Factor plots as complementary data visualization
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Funding
  • References
• 9. Narrative modulation in the storytelling of breast cancer survivors’ transitional experiences
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Using narrative analysis to understand cancer survivors’ transitional experiences
  • 3. Narrative modulation in the storytelling of breast cancer survivors’ transitional experiences
    • 3.1 Narrative modulation in storytelling
    • 3.2 A cognitive-linguistic and socio-cognitive understanding of narrative modulation
  • 4. Study design and data analysis
  • 5. Narrative modulation and meaning configuration in the narrative data
    • 5.1 The storyline of crisis
    • 5.2 The storyline of restitution
    • 5.3 The storyline of inner growth
    • 5.4 The storyline of continuous pain and suffer
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
• 10. Framing the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): Women’s experiences of changes in the body
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Moving beyond medical approaches
    • 2.1 Medical definitions of mental health disorders
    • 2.2 Sociocultural and individual contexts in OCD
  • 3. Cognitive linguistics, embodiment and mental health
    • 3.1 Conceptual metaphor theory and OCD
    • 3.2 Image schemas and OCD
  • 4. Illness narratives
  • 5. Aims
  • 6. Methods
    • 6.1 Ethical approval
    • 6.2 Recruitment and participants
    • 6.3 Data collection
    • 6.4 Data selection and analysis
  • 7. Results and discussion
    • 7.1 Narrative one: Angela
    • 7.2 Narrative two: Lucy
    • 7.3 Narrative three: Nicola
  • 8. Conclusions
    • 8.1 Conclusions for OCD
    • 8.2 Conclusions for image schemas
  • References
• Index