How Metaphors Guide, Teach and Popularize Science
Editors
| Europa-Universität Flensburg
| Independent Researcher
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.
[Figurative Thought and Language, 6] 2020. vi, 332 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
1–37
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Part I. Metaphor in natural science and science education – an overview
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42–110
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41–71
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73–110
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Part II. Metaphor in science popularization – concepts of biology and biochemistry
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114–207
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113–139
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141–173
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175–208
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Part III. Metaphors in specific fields of social sciences and the humanities
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212–318
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211–262
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263–295
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297–318
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Index
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319–332
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“All in all, this is an inspirational book which is informative and practical, and it makes a valuable contribution to a rapidly expanding body of literature on metaphor studies in this exciting and vibrant field of pragmatics.”
Jixian Pang, Zhejiang University City College, Hangzhou, China, in Journal of Pragmatics 170 (2020)
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Subjects
Communication Studies
BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General