Pages of revolution, promise and hope: metaphors of cloning and stem cell research in Brazilian newspapers

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Autor(a) principal: da Silva Medeiros, Flávia Natércia
Data de Publicação: 2013
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Brazilian journalism research (Online)
Texto Completo: https://bjr.sbpjor.org.br/bjr/article/view/611
Resumo: Metaphors not only contribute to cognitively accommodate new information and concepts, but also to mobilize political, social or ideological meanings. In the popularization of biotechnology-related facts and achievements, the metaphors chosen to construct newspaper articles may influence both positively and negatively the general public perceptions of its several applications. This study reports a discourse analysis of metaphors used in Brazilian opinion-leading newspapers to popularize cloning and stem cell research: “revolution”, “opening new ways/doors”, “promise” and “hope”. Predominantly associated with positive sense, they may have contributed to reduce the resistance against animal and/or therapeutic cloning and to construct a moral imperative in favor of embryonic stem cell research, which would lead to therapies or cures for incurable diseases.
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title Pages of revolution, promise and hope: metaphors of cloning and stem cell research in Brazilian newspapers
spellingShingle Pages of revolution, promise and hope: metaphors of cloning and stem cell research in Brazilian newspapers
da Silva Medeiros, Flávia Natércia
Discourse
Metaphors
Cloning
Stem Cells
Brazilian Press
title_short Pages of revolution, promise and hope: metaphors of cloning and stem cell research in Brazilian newspapers
title_full Pages of revolution, promise and hope: metaphors of cloning and stem cell research in Brazilian newspapers
title_fullStr Pages of revolution, promise and hope: metaphors of cloning and stem cell research in Brazilian newspapers
title_full_unstemmed Pages of revolution, promise and hope: metaphors of cloning and stem cell research in Brazilian newspapers
title_sort Pages of revolution, promise and hope: metaphors of cloning and stem cell research in Brazilian newspapers
author da Silva Medeiros, Flávia Natércia
author_facet da Silva Medeiros, Flávia Natércia
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Discourse
Metaphors
Cloning
Stem Cells
Brazilian Press
topic Discourse
Metaphors
Cloning
Stem Cells
Brazilian Press
description Metaphors not only contribute to cognitively accommodate new information and concepts, but also to mobilize political, social or ideological meanings. In the popularization of biotechnology-related facts and achievements, the metaphors chosen to construct newspaper articles may influence both positively and negatively the general public perceptions of its several applications. This study reports a discourse analysis of metaphors used in Brazilian opinion-leading newspapers to popularize cloning and stem cell research: “revolution”, “opening new ways/doors”, “promise” and “hope”. Predominantly associated with positive sense, they may have contributed to reduce the resistance against animal and/or therapeutic cloning and to construct a moral imperative in favor of embryonic stem cell research, which would lead to therapies or cures for incurable diseases.
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