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T1 From the Closet to the Stars. Metaphoric Construals of Gender Identity in Tumblr. A Case Study
A1 Filardo Llamas, Laura
A1 Roldán García, Alba
K1 figurative language, community of practice, gender identities, Tumblr, metaphor, metonymy, schema, ambient affiliation
AB This paper explores how group and individual identity are constructedon social media, and it looks specifically at the role of figurative language in thisprocess. It also acknowledges the idiosyncrasy of Tumblr, which is characterizedby its users’ unique lexicon and its peculiar post and identity labelling system (Oakley2016). Based on previous research on conceptual metaphor (Hart 2008, Charteris-Black 2004, among others), this study seeks to understand the effect of frame activationin the construal of gender and its role in the construction of intersubjectiveidentities for the creation of (fluid) social groups. This research follows a qualitative,corpus-based analysis, in which three types of figurative language were distinguished:metonymy, metaphor and cultural frames (Dancygier & Sweetser 2014; Kövecses2017). As shown in the results, the use of figurative language counteractsprior binary conceptions of gender, erasing previous boundaries. Furthermore, examplesinvolve intertextual and interdiscursive references, hence creating interpersonalrelations via shared ambient affiliation
PB De Gruyter
SN 978-3-11-100125-8, 978-3-11-100136-4
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/76003
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/76003
LA eng
NO Romano, Manuela (ed). Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts: Current Crises. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024, p. 51-80
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 18-jun-2025