Vom Hühner-Holocaust über die Öko-Diktatur zum Kulturkampf um die Currywurst. Korpuslinguistische Perspektiven auf ernährungsbezogene Politisierungen
摘要
Metaphors can use their semantic recontextualisation potential to comprehensively and persistently put contexts into a new perspective. The at least implicit connection between the metaphorical source and target areas must always be considered. In this respect, metaphorically charged language use reveals itself to be multidimensionally differentiable in terms of discourse semantics. These multidirectional contextual relationships, which can also be understood as a kind of pendulum movement, will be analysed in the context of this article by means of an exemplary analysis of the adoption of three central historical metaphors – Kulturkampf, Diktatur and Holocaust – in food and climate discourses in terms of corpus linguistics and reflected upon in terms of ecolinguistics and discourse ethics. The aim is to understand the productivity of historical metaphors used as a central means of linking and understanding food and climate discourses with reference to controversial topics, such as meat consumption.