Argumentative metaphors (" Europe fortress ", " Europe colander ", " tsunami "). Reread Metaphors we live by, by Lakoff and Johnson (1980). The role of mega-metaphors (or " megaphores ") in migration discourse : naturalistic models (fluid mechanics, organic metaphor, the country as a family, the postulate of equilibrium), models of confrontation (war, game, market, theater, tribunal, contract, rite and belief...), models of selection in a finite world (castle, Malthusian banquet, " full boat ", sharing the cake) and other arguments about populations " de trop ". The " " argument is finite, countable and saturated.
General reflection on the use of " megaphores " in scientific language and public debate : explain or " transplicate " ?
Developments on dissociation arguments. The example of concept splitting in German philosophy. Régis Debray's op-ed (1989, revised 1995) aligning binary oppositions between " republicans " and " democrats ".
Mega-metaphors (or " megaphores ") in the field of migration. We can distinguish : naturalistic models (fluid mechanics, organic metaphor, the nation-family, the paradigm of automatic equilibrium) ; confrontational models (war, game, market, theater, court, contract..) ; models of selection in a finite world, or " theory of limited good " (Malthusian banquet, " full boat ", sharing the cake, populations " de trop ", " reception capacities " countable and saturated...)
Close-up of aquatic metaphors : megaphor of the flow of " trop plein " (flow, influx, submersion, tsunami. Cf. analyses by Marc Bernardot (2016), citing J. Charteris-Black (2006).
List of " megaphores ", or metaphorical matrices (around fifteen), and mixed metaphors.
A great Classic : George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live by, London/Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1980. Theory of the ubiquitous metaphor in discourse, the fruit of " imaginative rationality ", constructed by lived experience, but which provides only partial explanations.
Limits of metaphor (and, even more so, megaphor) : it doesn't explain, it " transplicates ", displacing the objects of discourse and creating the illusion of explanation.
