Activating metaphors: exploring the embodied nature of metaphorical mapping in political discourse

Giovanelli, Marcello

Abstract

Objectives: This activity allows students to explore the embodied nature of metaphor and its interpretative significance by using gesture and physical movement. Students also understand how, in metaphor, abstract entities are conceptualized in terms of something more concrete.

Citation

Giovanelli, M. (2015). Activating metaphors: exploring the embodied nature of metaphorical mapping in political discourse. Communication Teacher, 30(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/17404622.2015.1102303

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Dec 22, 2015
• Deposit Date: Feb 23, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 23, 2016
• Journal: Communication Teacher
• Print ISSN: 1740-4622
• Electronic ISSN: 1740-4630
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 30
• Issue: 1
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17404622.2015.1102303
• Keywords: Persuasion, Rhetoric, Communication Theory, Metaphor Theory, Multimodal Communication.
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/768835
• Publisher URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17404622.2015.1102303