Metaphor in Communication, Science and Education
Description
This collection of papers presents some recent trends in metaphor studies that propose new directions of research on the embodied cognition perspective. The overall volume, in particular, shows how the embodied cognition still remains a relevant approach in a multidisciplinary research on the communicative side of metaphors, by focusing on both comprehension processes in science as well as learning processes in education.
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Francesca Ervas and Elisabetta Gola , University of Cagliari, Italy; Maria Grazia Rossi , University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy.
Content
- Intro
- Table of contents
- How embodied cognition still matters to metaphor studies
- Part I: Theoretical perspectives
- Metaphor and metonymy in folk and expert theories of emotion
- Metaphor and Metamorphosis
- Is language necessary to interpret visual metaphors?
- Embodied Simulation and metaphorical gestures
- Part II: Communication
- Audiovisual metaphors and metonymies of emotions and depression in moving images
- Leading the war at home and winning the race abroad: Metaphors used by President Obama to frame the fight against climate change
- Secret codes of metaphor: Anatomy of architecture
- Some observations about metaphors in specialised languages
- Part III: Science
- Classical physics as a metaphorical tool for evoking quantum world
- Integration and differentiation at the basis of metaphor: dexterity in behaviour and degeneracy in the nervous system
- Building metaphors: Constitutive narratives in science
- Identification and understanding of medical metaphors by non-experts
- Part IV: Education
- Eliciting metaphor in education research: Is it really worth the effort?
- Teaching (in) metaphors
- Metaphoricity in English L2 learners' prepositions
- Metaphor and the shaping of educational thinking
- Index
