the main purpose of this paper is to clarify the concept of metaphor and its functions in education. there are two main parts in this paper: the first is to discuss the six major classic and modern theories of metaphor according to their cognitive and intellectual functions , and the second is to identify and classify the four types of figurative language including metaphor, simile, allegory an...

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...

We report our developments on metaphor and affect sensing for several metaphorical language phenomena including affects as external entities metaphor, food metaphor, animal metaphor, size metaphor, and anger metaphor. The metaphor and affect sensing component has been embedded in a conversational intelligent agent interacting with human users under loose scenarios. Evaluation for the detection ...

Education has long been driven by its metaphors for teaching and learning. These metaphors have influenced both educational research and educational practice. Complexity and constructivism are two theories that provide functional and robust metaphors. Complexity provides a metaphor for the structure of myriad phenomena, while constructivism provides a metaphor for learning. In the synthesis of ...

This paper presents an outline of a classification of metaphor use in text that can aid the interpretation of data obtained from corpora. The classification is exemplified on examples from a developing corpus of both public and academic discourse on educational change. The paper claims that it is necessary to distinguish between metaphor as an organizing principle of the conceptual system and i...

Since Lakoff and Johnson proposed their far-reaching theory of conceptual metaphor, people's interpretation metaphor has changed from a rhetorical approach to way thinking. In recent years, multimodal metaphors have gradually received attention scholars at home abroad, been applied different forms media research such as advertisements, comics, gestures, films, thus greatly contributing the adva...

There is a common element to studies that in recent decades philosophers, psychologists and linguists have devoted to the question of metaphor: all point out that the metaphor is not simply a rhetorical device, a way to make the language more lively and attractive, but is instead a cognitive tool, a process that has to do with the thought as much and perhaps more than with language. However, ju...

Eva L. Baker CLOSING the gap” is a metaphor for equity. It suggests that achievement test differences among groups of students differing in first language, socioeconomic status, or cultural background will be reduced by the educational efforts of schools. Another metaphor, “leaving no child behind,” similarly signals the intention of the educational system to address the specific needs of each ...