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What happened to My Body My Choice?: Viewpoint stacking and the construal of picket signs

What happened to My Body My Choice?: Viewpoint stacking and the construal of picket signs

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This paper analyzes meaning constructions in picket signs containing My Body My Choice (MBMC) within Viewpoint Spaces network theory (Dancygier 2012). It is specifically concerned with multilayered conceptual structures where viewpoints are stacked in the construal of this picket sign slogan, which can be interpreted as: as it is about my body, it should be my choice that matters. To fully understand its use, the viewer requires several pieces of pertinent information, including, for instance, that those who use the phrase to protest vaccine mandates are unlikely to be those who would use it to support abortion rights, even though the phrase ostensibly expresses invariable support for every individual’s right to bodily autonomy. It provides an elaborate account of how multiple pieces of knowledge of different viewpoints, such as invoked frame knowledge of the abortion-rights movement and presupposed knowledge triggered by linguistic constructs, are stacked and (de-)compressed into the overall construal.

1. Introduction: My Body My Choice

2. Preliminaries

3. The picket signs containing MBMC as a conventionalized chunk

4. The picket signs switching the pronouns of MBMC

5. Discussion: Generalization of the meaning of MBMC within the network

6. Conclusion

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