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Creative Metaphor, Evaluation, and Emotion in Conversations about Work: Routledge Focus on Applied Linguistics

Autor Jeannette Littlemore, Sarah Turner, Penelope Tuck
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 dec 2024
This book explores creative and conventional metaphor within a particular workplace.This book will appeal to researchers interested in better understanding metaphor, creativity, evaluation, and workplace cultures.
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ISBN-13: 9781032202471
ISBN-10: 1032202475
Pagini: 66
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 4 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
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Cuprins

Acknowledgements, 1.     Chapter 1 “I’m sort of running on this soapy conveyor belt with people throwing wet sponges at me and I’ve got this sodding great elastic band attached to my back”Why look at creative metaphor, evaluation, and emotion in conversations about work?, The role played by metaphor in the sharing of emotional experiences, Are creative or conventional metaphors more likely to be used for evaluation?, Is (creative) metaphor more likely to be used for positive or negative evaluation?, Previous studies of the role played by metaphor in the workplace, and the approach taken in this study, A final (but important) comment on the nature of ‘creative metaphor’, The context of the study, Research questions, 2.     Chapter 2 “I’m surprised anybody can hear anything going on for the crashing of all of these elephants in the room”: Methodology and taxonomy of creative metaphor types, Introduction, Participants and interview procedure, Procedure used for the identification of metaphor, Procedure used for the identification of creative uses of metaphor and taxonomy of creative uses of metaphor, Procedure used for the identification of positive and negative evaluation,  Conclusion, 3.     Chapter 3 “She did the traditional sort of chuck it all up in the air, so get all the deckchairs and throw them up in the air, cause chaos for a year and a half and then leave”: To what extent are creative metaphors used to perform evaluation and how do creative and conventional metaphors relate to one another?, Introduction, To what extent is metaphor used to express evaluation in conversations about work? Is the use of metaphor more likely to be associated with positive or negative evaluation? And do creative and conventional metaphor differ in terms of the extent to which they express (positive or negative) evaluation?, Which metaphors were used to perform what kinds of evaluation, and how were they employed?, Conclusion, 4.     Chapter 4 Conclusion: "As people rotate round, some will spin off the merry-go-round and shoot off back to the private sector”, Conclusion

Notă biografică

Jeannette Littlemore is a Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on the role played by creative and conventional metaphor and metonymy in the sharing of emotional experiences.
Sarah Turner is an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Linguistics in the Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University, UK. Her research focuses on the analysis of figurative language production to provide insights into physical, psychological, and social experiences.
Penelope Tuck is a Professor of Accounting, Public Finance, and Policy at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. Her research area is accounting from a social and institutional perspective. She focuses on engaged research and covers sites such as taxation, central government, and the health sector.