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Direct linkKevin King – English in Education, 2025
This paper provides educators a foothold in the tricky terrain of metaphor, its theoretical underpinnings and pedagogical possibilities. Metaphor provides us with a means of comprehending domains of experience that do not have a preconceptual structure of their own. Conceptual metaphors permit mental imagery from sensorimotor domains to hold sway…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English Teachers, High School Teachers, College Faculty
