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Metaphor, Agency, & Empowerment in a Lived Experience Account of…
Metaphor, Agency, & Empowerment in a Lived Experience Account of Alcohol Harm
CMT
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Hypothesis: Agency as forming a key part of the framing - transference of quasi-agentive status often 'doing the work' in the behaviour-influencing power of metaphor. Can't make any more claims than that (e.g. power of metaphor to influence reasoning) without proper evidence.
BLENDING THEORY - personification of addiction as a conceptual blend. Metaphorical mapping of agency forms part of the conceptual network.
Transitivity
I feel like this is kind of an alternative model, as opposed to a compatible one? Can still include analysis from this perspective.
Think more about the (in)compatibilities of these two. Feels like an analysis from transitivity claims agentive status is applied to any social actor occupying the Subject role, and that actor can be interpreted as being empowered. But arguments from metaphorical framing (e.g. MELC Project, Demjen 2019) seem to show it is more complicated than that.
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The Dowty, Duranti stuff is relevant here too
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Analysis of addiction discourse taken from: "Young, Female and Addicted" 2022 Channel 4 Documentary
"You're battling not only the addiction, but you're battling your mental health at the same time. and that is just like, you don't know what one to listen to."
A: "Are you angry at it? Are you upset at it? What addiction's done to your life?"
B: "It took my mammy"
[Talking about an experience in rehab]
A: "I grieved over alcohol ... I felt like I'd lost a friend"
B: "You mourn it don't you"
"It is frightening to hear from a consultant how much physical harm alcohol does to our bodies, never mind to our lives, family and relationships."
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In each of these examples addiction is represented as having agency. It has the power to have an impact, to affect change in the lives of the individuals affected by it, and it is represented as having the will to do so.
CMT and BT Analysis will focus on the two metaphors: Addiction recovery is losing a friend. Active addiction is a battle (addiction is an agentive opponent]
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