Argues that dialogic use of linguistic metaphor should be the primary site of investigation and theory building for metaphor studies, and that cognitive metaphor theory needs to be compatible with empirical findings from specific discourse contexts.
Argues that dialogic use of linguistic metaphor should be the primary site of investigation and theory building for metaphor studies, and that cogniti...
Research into metaphor has become one of the fastest-growing and important areas of language research over the past twenty years, and metaphor is now recognised as central to language and language use. The implications of these findings are only just beginning to be felt in applied linguistics and this book is designed to convey the excitement of metaphor study to a wider applied linguistic audience of researchers, trainers, programme developers and postgraduate students. The authors of the 12 papers are all internationally active researchers, contributing from their various backgrounds to...
Research into metaphor has become one of the fastest-growing and important areas of language research over the past twenty years, and metaphor is now ...
'Metaphor in Educational Discourse is a superb piece of applied linguistics research that integrates Vygotsky's theory of concepts with current work on metaphor into a coherent framework for investigating how teachers and learners negotiate figurative language in order to promote development in the classroom setting. In what is likely to become the standard for future studies in this area, Lynne Cameron meticulously demonstrates the central role of linguistic metaphors in classroom learning - designed to lead learners to a deeper understanding of complex mathematical and scientific...
'Metaphor in Educational Discourse is a superb piece of applied linguistics research that integrates Vygotsky's theory of concepts with current wor...
By investigating people's use of metaphors, we can better understand their emotions, attitudes and conceptualisations, as individuals and as participants in social life. This book describes practice in the analysis of metaphor in real-world discourse.
By investigating people's use of metaphors, we can better understand their emotions, attitudes and conceptualisations, as individuals and as participa...
