“He’s got it locked in!”: metaphor in professional
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“He’s got it locked in!”: metaphor in professional

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Description: Hes got it locked in metaphor in professional wrestling commentary Robbie Love Lancaster University rmlovelancasteracuk lovermob Introduction How is metaphor used in professional wrestling commentary Why might this be

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“He’s got it locked in!”: metaphor in professional wrestling commentary Robbie Love Lancaster University r.m.love@lancaster.ac.uk lovermob Introduction How is metaphor used in professional wrestling commentary? Why might this be interesting? http://cass.lancs.ac.uk Metaphor “the phenomenon whereby we talk and, potentially, think about something in terms of something else” (Semino 2008: 1) The “fundamentally metaphorical” nature of our “ordinary conceptual system” (Lakoff & Johnson 2003 [1980]: 3) “important and ubiquitous in language” (Zinken & Musolff 2009: 1) http://cass.lancs.ac.uk Conceptual Metaphor Theory Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) (Lakoff & Johnson 1980) Real-world concept = target domain The metaphor = source domain target source/vehicle Conceptual metaphor = broader cognitive mapping Linguistic metaphor = verbal instantiation of this http://cass.lancs.ac.uk Professional wrestling A “substantial American popular art form” (Sammond 2005: 1) http://cass.lancs.ac.uk Also Mexico, UK, Japan Performance of competitive physical conflict Its fans know this (Barthes 1957) Televised, with commentary What do we already know? Linguistic analyses of televised sports commentary College basketball: racial/gender stereotyping (Eastman & Billings 2001; Billings et al. 2002); racial bias (Rada & Wulfemeyer 2005) National basketball: racial identity, nationality, and masculinity (Lavelle 2010) No metaphor analysis No pro wrestling analysis http://cass.lancs.ac.uk What do we already know? Suspense -> enjoyment of televised sports (Peterson & Raney 2008) However, The audience knows it is not legitimate sport Pro wrestling perceived as “less suspenseful” than sport -> awareness of fiction (Raney & Depalma 2006: 332) Therefore, Pressure to heighten/maintain suspense http://cass.lancs.ac.uk Research questions To what extent are linguistic metaphors present in professional wrestling commentary? How can they be categorised and attributed to conceptual metaphors? How (if at all) do they contribute to suspense and excitement? http://cass.lancs.ac.uk Data Commentary of 3 pro wrestling matches 3 commentators World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) WrestleMania 29 (2013) Orthographic transcription http://cass.lancs.ac.uk Methodological approach Primarily: Metaphor identification procedure (MIP) (Pragglejaz Group 2007) Also influenced by: Discourse dynamics approach (Cameron et al. 2009) Intuition/researcher knowledge relied upon heavily http://cass.lancs.ac.uk Methodological approach Manual identification of: (Novel and) conventional metaphors vehicle groups Intuition used to filter potential metaphors Then: Frequency-driven analysis (cf. “quantitative description”, Cameron et al. 2009: 76) Vehicles grouped into abstract conceptual metaphors (traditional CMT, Semino 2008) http://cass.lancs.ac.uk Analysis http://cass.lancs.ac.uk 780 linguistic metaphors = 8.94% 331 novel conceptual metaphors names of characters and the signature moves they perform foregrounding aspects of character to assist ‘goodie’/‘baddie’ portrayal E.g. WRESTLERS ARE INHUMAN E.g. WRESTLING MOVES ARE NATURAL PHENOMENA E.g. WRESTLERS ARE NOT WRESTLERS Conventional metaphors

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