Metaphor and Cultural Narratives of the Economy: Analyzing Symbolic Value under the Context of the 2008 Financial Crisis and its Aftermath

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  • Pablo Valdivia University of Groningen

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v48i1.7751

Mots-clés :

metaphor, cultural narratives of economy, 2008 Financial Crisis, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Rafael Chirbes

Résumé

This article has two interconnected goals: 1) to provide an updated view regarding metaphor and social neuroscience concerning analogical cognition/modeling; 2) to analyze how metaphoricity activates hegemonic cultural narratives of the economy under the context of the 2008 Financial Crisis and its aftermath in a sample of Spanish press outlets and, via symbolic value cross-comparison analysis, in Todo lo que era sólido (2013) by Antonio Muñoz Molina and in En la orilla (2013) by Rafael Chirbes. Both texts offer transposable conditions for scalability.

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2025-12-19

Numéro

Vol. 48 No. 1 (2023): Economy and Literature in Spain and Beyond: From the Middle Ages to the Present

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© Pablo Valdivia 2025

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