From Swallowing the Red Pill to Failing to Build the Wall
Allusive Cognitive Metaphors in Advocating Political and Extremist Views
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4376239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matias Nurminen (0000-0002-1242-6995, Tampere University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 309-334 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/03335372-9642637 |
| OpenAlex | W4283022532 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 39 |
The article analyzes how allusive cognitive metaphors (ACMs) function as a persuasive narrative strategy in contemporary social media-fueled storytelling cultures. The ACM is a concise way of combining intertextual and metaphorical meaning-making for use in viral storytelling. Well-known works of fiction function as a shared baseline that can be easily alluded to. This narrative-metaphorical strategy has been adopted especially frequently by populists and online groups advocating extreme ideologies, one of the prominent and influential cases being "the red pill," coined by the antifeminist manosphere. The popularity of ACMs suggests that the interpretive contexts and target texts that narrative scholarship has grown accustomed to are changing, and that scholars of narrative and fiction need to adapt to the new challenges stemming from the ever-expanding digital sphere
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Ideology · Intertextuality · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Scholarship · Sociology · Storytelling · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Experientiality of Narrative
Forms
Curated Stories
The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative
The Ethics of Storytelling
Sexual Violence in the ‘Manosphere’
Kill All Normies
Models and Metaphors
The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language
The Sage Handbook of Social Media
Virality
Routledge Handbook of Counter-Narratives
Not All Dead White Men
Inside Story
Special issue on online misogyny
Drinking male tears
The (Alt)right to rape
Youth collective political expression on social media
Narrative warfare
Systemic misogyny exposed
Meme Templates as Expressive Repertoires in a Globalizing World
This is similar to Vincent Chin”
Ideological Imagination
From Homer to Tragedy
The Story Logic of Social Media
The End of Literature; or, What Purposes Does It Continue to Serve
On alluding
Alphas, Betas, and Incels
Technologies, Texts and Affordances
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |