The battles of language revisited. Metalinguistic metaphors in informative speech about feminist language

Marimón Llorca, Carmen ^[1]
1. [1] Universitat d'Alacant
  
  Universitat d'Alacant
  
  Alicante, España
Localización: Metaphor in economics and specialised discourse / coord. por José Mateo Martínez, Francisco Yus Ramos, 2021, ISBN 978-3-0343-4048-9, págs. 283-319
Idioma: inglés
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- This work has as its aim to analyze the presence and discursive functionality of metalinguistic metaphors in Spanish journalistic texts dealing with language. In addition to having become a recurrent resource in informative texts, metaphors about language are a more or less conventionalized and easily recognized catalog (Cellar-Larosse 2010). Organic metaphors such as “language becomes corrupted,” war-related ones like “the battle of language,” or others of an aesthetic nature—e.g. “language is a treasure”—appear as headings of articles, editorials, newspaper reports and book titles and, nevertheless, they have received very little attention from specialists. From a corpus of news items and informative articles about the Spanish language published in the press and related to the use of egalitarian language, a proposal is made to systematize the occurrences, additionally examining their recurrence and discursive functionality. Our work will come to an end with a reflection on the new-style purism and the immobilism of the shared imaginary on language also when it comes to its metaphorical expression.