In:Evaluative Discourse Metaphor in Online Communities
Mateusz-Milan Stanojević and Ljiljana Šarić
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 106] 2025
► pp. 11–59
Chapter 2Metaphor and evaluation in discourse
Published online: 4 August 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.106.c2
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.106.c2
Article outline
- 2.1Introduction
- 2.2Evaluation
- 2.2.1Values and evaluation in linguistics and beyond
- 2.2.2Targets of evaluation, polarity, and explicitness
- 2.2.3Investigating evaluations in language material
- 2.2.4Evaluation, stance, and attitude
- 2.2.5Situatedness of evaluation
- 2.2.6Evaluation in the appraisal framework
- 2.2.7Du Bois’s approach to evaluation and stance
- 2.3Metaphors in discourse
- 2.3.1Conceptual and discursive approaches to metaphor and deliberateness
- 2.3.2Metaphor as a framing device
- 2.3.3Ideational, interpersonal, and textual metafunction
- 2.3.4Metaphors, genre, and register
- 2.3.5Patterns of metaphors in discourse: Clusters, chains, and triggers
- 2.3.5.1Definitions of clusters, chains, and extended metaphors
- 2.3.5.2Features of clusters and chains in discourse
- 2.3.5.3Clusters, chains, and recontextualization in EDM
- 2.3.5.4Triggering
- 2.3.6Conclusion: Metaphors in discourse
- 2.4The evaluative function of metaphors in discourse
- 2.4.1Evaluative metaphor: Theories and terminology
- 2.4.2Where does evaluation in evaluative metaphors come from?
- 2.4.2.1The evaluative potential of source domains
- 2.4.2.2Evaluation and image schemas
- 2.4.2.3Evaluative metaphors are situated
- 2.4.2.4Sources and targets in evaluative metaphors
- 2.4.3Metaphor and evaluation from a communicative point of view: Indirectness and negative evaluation
- 2.4.3.1Indirectness and negativity of evaluative metaphor
- 2.4.3.2Inscribed and invoked appraisal in evaluative metaphors
- 2.4.4Evaluative metaphors, discourse genres, and registers
- 2.5Conclusion: Is evaluation a separate function of metaphors?
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