Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: The paper substantiates the explanatory and interpretative potential of analogical \nreasoning in resolving the ambiguity of defining cybersecurity. By applying cognitive \nlinguistics and corpus linguistics methods, it presents an attempt to showcase how the \nmetaphor co-creation strategy may be helpful in reframing the discourse around \ncybersecurity dominated by inapt metaphors. The latter, in their turn, prompt wrong \ninferences, which ultimately results in false decisions about the nature of cyber \nvulnerabilities. The comparison of the conversational valence introduced by professional \naudience and laymen involved in the campaign of co-creating new metaphor-based \nutterances reveals how it channels the cybersecurity discourse, and is followed by \noutlining the implications of applying the newly created metaphors.
Author: Inna Skrynnikova
Institution: Volgograd State University
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3190414247