The Role of Gestures in the Constructionof Multimodal Metaphors: analysis of a political-electoral debate

Maíra Avelar  Miranda; Paulo Henrique Aguiar Mendes

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Maíra Avelar Miranda UESB ##default.groups.name.author##
Paulo Henrique Aguiar Mendes UFOP ##default.groups.name.author##

Palabras clave:

Multimodal metaphors, Metaphoric gestures, Political-electoral Debates

Resumen

This paper intends to analyze the role of gestures in the construction of multimodal metaphors in the “political-electoral debate” genre. Theoretically, we have considered that metaphoric gestures can be analyzed as expressions of conceptual metaphors. We mainly approached and illustrated the importance of spatial orientation in the emergence of the metaphors in the political discourse. Methodologically, we have selected four scenes of a second-tour debate. Starting from the operational concept of gesture excursion, we specifically observed the multimodal metaphoricity in speech and gesture compounds. After analyzing the metaphors found in the four debate excerpts, we established a continuum between metaphors of a conventional nature and those of a new nature. We also tried to establish a comparative relation between the metaphors used by the two candidates, Dilma Rousseff (from the Labor Party) and José Serra (from the Social Democratic Party).

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