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oapen-20.500.12657-632902024-03-28T08:18:55Z How Metaphors Guide, Teach and Popularize Science Beger, Anke Smith, Thomas H. Language Arts & Disciplines Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics Metaphors are essential to scientists themselves and strongly influence science communication. Through careful analyses of metaphors actually used in science texts, recordings, and videos, this book explores the essential functions of conceptual metaphor in the conduct of science, teaching of science, and how scientific ideas are promoted and popularized. With an accessible introduction to theory and method this book prepares scientists, science teachers, and science writers to take advantage of recent shifts in metaphor theories and methods. Metaphor specialists will find theoretical issues explored in studies of bacteriology, cell reproduction, marine biology, physics, brain function and social psychology. We see the degree of conscious or intentional use of metaphor in shaping our conceptual systems and constraining inferences. Metaphor sources include social structure, embodied experience, abstract or mathematical formulations. The results are sometimes innovative hypotheses and robust conclusions; other times pedagogically useful, if inaccurate, stepping stones or, at worst, misleading fictions. As of January 2023, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. 2023-06-07T05:36:33Z 2023-06-07T05:36:33Z 2020 book 9789027205070 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63290 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International external_content.pdf John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company fa292f4b-9794-4566-9eff-4d0f5e4a08e9 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9789027205070 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) John Benjamins Publishing Company Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Metaphors are essential to scientists themselves and strongly influence science communication. Through careful analyses of metaphors actually used in science texts, recordings, and videos, this book explores the essential functions of conceptual metaphor in the conduct of science, teaching of science, and how scientific ideas are promoted and popularized. With an accessible introduction to theory and method this book prepares scientists, science teachers, and science writers to take advantage of recent shifts in metaphor theories and methods. Metaphor specialists will find theoretical issues explored in studies of bacteriology, cell reproduction, marine biology, physics, brain function and social psychology. We see the degree of conscious or intentional use of metaphor in shaping our conceptual systems and constraining inferences. Metaphor sources include social structure, embodied experience, abstract or mathematical formulations. The results are sometimes innovative hypotheses and robust conclusions; other times pedagogically useful, if inaccurate, stepping stones or, at worst, misleading fictions. As of January 2023, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.
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