Metaphor Analysis - Research Practice in Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences and the Humanities - Lynne Cameron
1: What is metaphor and why does it matter?
Metaphor Analysis - Research Practice in Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences and the Humanities - Lynne Cameron
Lynne Cameron [+]
The Open University
Lynne Cameron is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Centre for Language and Communication, The Open University.
Description
This chapter introduces metaphor as seeing one thing in terms of another, a multi-dimensional discourse phenomenon that involves language, thinking, physicality, and social interaction. It then demonstrates how metaphor can be used as a research tool to open up discourse data and reveal something of people's ideas and attitudes and values. Cameron summarizes her empirical study of metaphor and reconciliation, in which metaphor analysis helped to uncover the strategies by which former enemies came to understand each other.