Social Policy
An Exercise in Metaphor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11277802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald F Miller (The University of Melbourne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 191-215 |
| Publication date | 1985-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Knowledge (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0164-0259 • E-ISSN: 2673-9585 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0164025985007002006 |
| OpenAlex | W2049241567 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 7 |
These day it is becoming common to emphasize the significant role metaphor plays in the human sciences. Donald Schön, for example, has recently highlighted its importance in social policy. However, this article argues a more radical interpretation of metaphor's ubiquitous presence in social policy (and, implicitly, in all forms of knowledge and practice). In doing this, it notes certain symptomatic shortcomings in Schön's treatment: His restricted notion of metaphor makes him unnecessarily cautious and ambivalent in certain regards, and unwarrantedly optimistic, indeed innocent, in others. Metaphor must not be considered intuitive and insightful verbal imagery in contrast to a judicious rationality of “critical inquiry.”
Ambivalence · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Metaphor · Rationality · Sociology · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Psychology · Social Psychology
Collaborative policymaking
Understanding policy practices
Theoretical strategies of poststructuralist policy analysis
Deliberative Policy Analysis
A frame in the fields
How can power discourses be changed? Contrasting the ‘daughter deficit’ policy of the Delhi government with Gandhi and King's transformational reframing
The communication of policy meanings
Practices of policy interpretation
Why metaphor and other tropes? Linguistic approaches to analysing policies and the political
On Lenses and Filters
The Electronic Mountain
From Policy “Frames” to “Framing”
Supermarkets and Culture Clash
The International Match
Reading” “ Methods” “Texts
Built Space as Story
Meaning and metaphor
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2014 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |