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T1 Singing for peace: Metaphor and creativity in the lyrics and performances of three songs by U2
A1 Hidalgo-Downing, Laura
A1 Filardo Llamas, Laura
K1 Inglés (Lengua) - Análisis del discurso
K1 Análisis del discurso, multimodalidad, lingüística cognitiva, canción, discurso político, retórica constructivista, text-world theory
AB This chapter explores how metaphoric creativity contributes to shaping and recontextualizing ideological and socio-political practices in three songs by U2, “Sunday, Bloody Sunday”, “Please” and “Peace on Earth”. The contextual motivations of metaphoric creativity are analyzed by exploring three main dimensions. Metaphoric creativity is analyzed, first, in the conceptualization of the topic of conflict in Northern Ireland in the lyrics of the three songs. Second, it is analyzed as hinging upon the multimodal interaction of verbal and visual modes in the performance of the song “Please” in a YouTube video. Third, we explore the potentiality for creative recontextualization of the songs, which have been performed to reinterpret other political conflicts and tragic events, starting from the 9/11 attacks.
PB John Benjamins
SN 9789027205520
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/76443
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/76443
LA eng
NO Hidalgo Downing, L., & Filardo Llamas, L. (2020). Singing for peace: Metaphor and creativity in the lyrics and performances of three songs by U2. In Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts (pp. 71-96). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 26-jul-2025