Ideology and metaphor
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
English Today
Publication Date
7-1-2006
Volume
22
Issue
3
First Page
25
Last Page
39
Abstract
This paper attempts to show the important role that ideology ('meaning in the service of power') plays in the nurturing and proliferation of metaphors and metaphoric themes, a psychological and linguistic role that is just as important as bodily experience. It discusses such themes as power is high, sex is violence, disease is invasion, and race is colour, attempting to show how they drive social practices. It also explores how the themes activity is game and quality is quantity (along with such subthemes as time is money and human quality is wealth) have been implicated in the emergence of both capitalist economic philosophy and the Darwinism and neo-Darwinism which developed from it (as represented successively in Hobbes, Smith, Hume, Malthus and Darwin himself).
DOI
10.1017/S0266078406003051
Print ISSN
02660784
E-ISSN
14740567
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Language
English
Recommended Citation
Goatly, A. (2006). Ideology and metaphor. English Today, 22(3), 25-39. doi: 10.1017/S0266078406003051