The Role of (Deliberate) Metaphor in Communicating Knowledge in Academic Discourse: An Analysis of College Lectures from Different Disciplines

ISBN-13: 9783631779989 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 454 str.

Anke Beger

Opis

This book features comprehensive qualitative metaphor analyses in US-American college lectures. The author shows that deliberate metaphors fulfill important communicative functions. However, the critical discussion of their identification and application demonstrates problems with 'deliberateness'.

Spis treści

Conceptual Metaphor Theory - Communicating Knowledge - Metaphors in psychology - Recontextualizations - Mixed Metaphors - The Concepts Mind and Self - Science teaching - Science popularization

O autorze

Anke Beger studied English and German to become a school teacher at the Europa-Universität Flensburg (EUF). Afterwards, she spent a year as an assistant teacher in the USA. In 2018, Anke Beger obtained her doctoral degree in English Linguistics at the EUF where she works as a researcher and lecturer.