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Converging Evidence: Methodological and theoretical issues for linguistic researchEdited by Doris Schönefeld
[Human Cognitive Processing 33] 2011
► pp. 33–54
Edited by Doris Schönefeld
[Human Cognitive Processing 33] 2011
► pp. 33–54
Issues in collecting converging evidence
Is metaphor always a matter of thought?
In empirical research, metaphor constitutes a showcase for the difficulties involved in handling converging evidence, which typically displays a conflation between two scientific phenomena, ‘phenomenological pluralism’ and ‘methodological pluralism’. Phenomenological pluralism is exciting but problematic, and involves the evaluation of evidence produced by different methods of data collection and analysis across distinct areas of research, pertaining to distinct phenomena of investigation. Methodological pluralism, by contrast, is widely accepted as able to produce converging evidence – it pertains to using different methods of data collection and analysis within one distinct area of research, so that evidence may be legitimately claimed to point to the same conclusion about the same phenomenon.
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Dunn, Jonathan
2015. Three Types of Metaphoric Utterances That Can Synthesize Theories of Metaphor. Metaphor and Symbol 30:1 ► pp. 1 ff. 
Strugielska, Ariadna
2015. A hybrid methodology of linguistic metaphor identification in elicited data and its conceptual implications. In Elicited Metaphor Analysis in Educational Discourse [Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 3], ► pp. 65 ff.
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