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2023 | 8 | 1 | 52-70

Article title

'I Had a Dream, Which Was not All a Dream': Viewpoint Metaphors in Personal Experience Narratives on War

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PL
„Miałem sen, który nie był wyłącznie snem”: metafory oglądu w narracjach osobistych doświadczeń na temat wojny

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PL
W artykule przedstawiono argumenty za istnieniem szczególnego rodzaju metafory pojęciowej – metafory oglądu. Metafora oglądu jest narzędziem stosowanym w narracjach dotyczących osobistych doświadczeń narratorów w celu oddania niezwykłości tych doświadczeń. Metafora ta pozwala na użycie w narracji rzeczywistego doświadczenia projekcji cech percepcyjnych innych doświadczeń, takich jak oglądanie filmu lub sen. Materiał badawczy stanowił korpus 50 narracji osobistych doświadczeń (25 w języku angielskim i 25 w języku ukraińskim) wojskowych i cywilnych  uczestników lub świadków działań wojennych, przede wszystkim  w Ukrainie w latach 2014-2023 oraz w niektórych innych konfliktach. Stwierdzono, że dwie podstawowe i najbardziej widoczne metafory oglądu w tego rodzaju dyskursie to DOŚWIADCZENIE WYDARZENIA to SEN O WYDARZENIU lub OGLĄDANIE FILMU Z WYDARZENIA. Metafory te są często wzmacniane przez inne metafory oglądu i zwykle pojawiają się wielokrotnie w narracji. Funkcją metafory oglądu jest wyrażanie subiektywnego doświadczenia, stanu emocjonalnego i ucieleśnionego trybu percepcji w momencie doświadczenia, które jest opowiadane. Dlatego też punkt widzenia jest traktowany tutaj jako część konstrukcji przestrzeni mentalnej. Badanie metafory oglądu pozwala rzucić światło na strukturę pojęciową punktu widzenia. Z badania wynika, że cechy percepcji przejęte na podstawie doświadczenia domeny źródłowej (oglądania filmu czy snu) obejmują bycie biernym świadkiem, zmniejszoną sprawczość, wyciszoną percepcję, nierzeczywistość wydarzeń, klatkowość widzenia i zwolnione tempo.
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The article makes a case for a particular kind of conceptual metaphor, the viewpoint metaphor. The viewpoint metaphor is argued to be a tool employed by narrators in personal experience narratives in order to render their irregular perception mode. The viewpoint metaphor allows mapping on the narrated real experience the perception characteristics of other experiences such as watching a movie or having a dream. The research material consisted of a sample of 50 personal experience narratives (25 in English and 25 in Ukrainian) produced by the participants or witnesses, military and civilian, of hostilities mainly in Ukraine in 2014-2023 and in some other conflicts. It was found that two basic and most prominent viewpoint metaphors in this kind of discourse is EXPERIENCING THE EVENT is DREAMING OF THE EVENT or WATCHING A MOVIE OF THE EVENT. These metaphors are often reinforced by other viewpoint metaphors and they tend to repeatedly occur in the narrative. The function of the viewpoint metaphor is expressing the subjective experientiality, emotional condition and embodied perception mode at the time of the experience narrated. Viewpoint is therefore argued to be a part of the mental space’s construal. Studying the viewpoint metaphor allows to shed light onto the conceptual structure of viewpoint. It was found that the elements mapped from the source experience of watching a movie or having a dream include passive witnessing, reduced agency, hushed perception, unreality of events, timelapse, and slow motion.

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Volume

8

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1

Pages

52-70

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Dates

published
2023

Contributors

  • V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
  • Université Grenoble-Alpes

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Biblioteka Nauki
28394726

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