Metaphor in Educational Discourse

by Cameron, Lynne

• ISBN13: 9780826449405
• ISBN10: 0826449409
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781441175649
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

This book reports research into metaphor in use with school students. It is one of the first studies of metaphor to investigate the phenomenon in contextualised discourse, to adopt a socio-cultural approach to metaphor and to introduce the relatively new science of complex dynamic systems which offers new and potentially fruitful analogies for the analysis of educational discourse.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
An applied linguistic approach to metaphor in discourse	p. 1
Talking, thinking and learning: theoretical background	p. 27
Researching metaphor in classroom discourse	p. 51
The linguistic form of metaphor in classroom discourse	p. 86
Deliberate and conventionalized metaphor in classroom discourse	p. 100
Metaphor in classroom activity	p. 120
Researching metaphor interpretation	p. 144
Metaphors in text 1: 'The Ozone Layer'	p. 167
Metaphors in text 2: 'The Heart'	p. 200
Systematicity, metaphor and metonymy	p. 239
Metaphor in educational discourse: review and discussion	p. 265
Linguistic metaphors and grammatical analysis in the geology lesson	p. 272
Linguistic metaphors and teaching sequences in the geology lesson	p. 275
References	p. 278
Index	p. 291
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