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.
Katrin Ahlgren
List of John Benjamins publications for which Katrin Ahlgren plays a role.
Title
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies
Articles
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