Metaphor in Education: A multilingual perspective
Edited by Katrin Ahlgren, Anne Golden and Ulrika Magnusson
Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 11:2 (2021) vi, 191 pp.
Ulrika Magnusson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ulrika Magnusson plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies
2023 Swedish immersion in Finland and Swedish as a second-language subject in Sweden: Teacher perspectives from two primary schools Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 11:2, pp. 255–282 | Article
Based on fieldwork and interviews, we explore five teachers’ views about their teaching of Swedish as a second language in an early immersion school in Finland (Larch) and a linguistically heterogeneous primary school in Sweden (Chestnut). Drawing from ecological perspectives, we aim to… read more
2021 Second half part of the apple: Friendship metaphors in second language writing Metaphor in Education: A multilingual perspective, Ahlgren, Katrin, Anne Golden and Ulrika Magnusson (eds.), pp. 279–301 | Article
This article investigates the use of friendship metaphors in texts by adult second language writers, in relation to the occurrence and function of metaphor and the writers’ discursive constructions of identity. The texts come from the final assessment in Swedish for Immigrants (SFI), a language… read more
2021 Metaphor in education: A multilingual and Scandinavian perspective Metaphor in Education: A multilingual perspective, Ahlgren, Katrin, Anne Golden and Ulrika Magnusson (eds.), pp. 196–211 | Introduction
This special issue explores the use of metaphor in education from a multilingual perspective in two Scandinavian countries, Norway and Sweden. In this introduction, we include a brief overview of earlier research in the domain and identify common factors noteworthy to discuss in relation to the… read more
2013 Grammatical metaphor in Swedish monolingual and multilingual upper secondary school students’ writing Functions of Language 20:2, pp. 250–281 | Article
This partly longitudinal study applies the theoretical framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics to second language writing to investigate the use of grammatical metaphor (GM; non-congruent realizations of meaning, e.g. nominalizations) in 365 texts written by Swedish mono- and multilingual… read more