Educational researchers and practitioners are frequently asking questions about how better to understand educational theory and practice. Through the years, they have employed a variety of both quantitative and qualitative methods to elucidate the world of education. In this article, the author explores the epistemological legitimacy of metaphor analysis as a viable means for qualitative educat...

This document describes a study of metaphor annotation that was carried out as part of the ATT-Meta project. The study lead to a number of results about metaphor and how it is signalled that are reported elsewhere (e.g. Wallington et al 2003a, Wallington et al 2003b). It also resulted in a public database of metaphorical views (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/attmeta/DatabankDCA/index.html). ...

Introduction: Cognitive linguists believe that metaphor is a cognitive phenomenon, and that what appears in language is just the aspect of cognitive phenomenon Metaphor is one of the basic interdisciplinary concepts that has been paid more attention to its fundamental role in various aspects of psychology, medicine, including cancer in recent years. Methods:. From the point of view of cognitiv...

This study provides insight into lived experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in United States. Participant metaphors were collected by conducting in-depth semi-structured interviews ( N = 44). Participants asked to compare with an animal and a color, provide contextual sensemaking about their metaphors. A metaphor analysis revealed four convergent mental models participants’ (i.e., uncertainty, ...

introduction: psychological symptoms of non-cardiac chest pain (nccp) including perceptual, emotional, and behavioral problems can effect patient perception of chest pain. this study was conducted to determine the effect of metaphor therapy on mitigating depression, anxiety, stress, and pain discomfort in patients with nccp. materials and methods: this randomized, controlled, trial was conducte...

OBJECTIVES Reconceptualization of pain and reduction of pain-related catastrophizing are primary objectives in chronic pain rehabilitation. Teaching people about the underlying biology of pain has been shown to facilitate these objectives. The objective of this study was to investigate whether written metaphor and story can be used to increase knowledge of the biology of pain and reduce pain-re...

The most sustained and innovative recent work on metaphor has occurred in cognitive science and psychology. Psycholinguistic investigation suggests that novel, poetic metaphors are processed differently than literal speech, while relatively conventionalized and contextually salient metaphors are processed more like literal speech. This conflicts with the view of “cognitive linguists” like Georg...