Lynne Cameron

Metaphor in Educational Discourse (Advances in Applied Linguistics Series)

Diane Larsen-Freeman

Accessible introduction to rapidly growing field of interest across disciplines. Explains key constructs: chaos; complexity; dynamic systems; emergence etc. Demonstrates applications to areas of applied linguistics. Illustrates how complex systems thinking can challenge established ideas. Discusses implications for theory, research, and practice.

Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics

Andrew Brown

Hugh South

Descriptors of Good Practice : a Summary Report of a Consultation Exercise to Identify Descriptors of Good Practice for EAL Teachers

The EAL Teacher

Robert Maslen

"Metaphor is recognised as an important way of thinking - constructing analogies and making connections between ideas - and an important way of using language to explain abstract ideas or to find indirect but powerful ways of conveying feelings. 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. When real-world language use is taken as the site of metaphor study, researchers face methodological issues that have only recently begun to be addressed. The contributors to this volume have all had to find ways to deal with methodological issues in their own research and have developed techniques that are brought together here. Using as a basis the discourse dynamics approach to metaphor developed by the editor, the book explores links between theory and empirical investigation, exemplifies data analysis and discusses issues in research design and practice. Particular attention is paid to the processes of metaphor identification, categorisation and labelling, and to the use of corpus linguistic and other computer-assisted methods."--Publisher's description.

Research Practice in Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences and the Humanities

Metaphor Analysis

This book will develop readers' understanding of children are being taught a foreign language.

Teaching Languages to Young Learners

Lynne Cameron

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