Activating metaphors: exploring the embodied nature of metaphorical mapping in political discourse
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.
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Published: |
Taylor & Francis
2015
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31833/ |
| _version_ | 1848794281124298752 |
|---|---|
| author | Giovanelli, Marcello |
| author_facet | Giovanelli, Marcello |
| author_sort | Giovanelli, Marcello |
| building | Nottingham Research Data Repository |
| collection | Online Access |
| description | 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. |
| first_indexed | 2025-11-14T19:13:42Z |
| format | Article |
| id | nottingham-31833 |
| institution | University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus |
| institution_category | Local University |
| last_indexed | 2025-11-14T19:13:42Z |
| publishDate | 2015 |
| publisher | Taylor & Francis |
| recordtype | eprints |
| repository_type | Digital Repository |
| spelling | nottingham-318332020-05-04T17:26:03Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31833/ Activating metaphors: exploring the embodied nature of metaphorical mapping in political discourse Giovanelli, Marcello 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. Taylor & Francis 2015-12-22 Article PeerReviewed Giovanelli, Marcello (2015) Activating metaphors: exploring the embodied nature of metaphorical mapping in political discourse. Communication Teacher, 30 (1). pp. 39-44. ISSN 1740-4630 Persuasion Rhetoric Communication Theory Metaphor Theory Multimodal Communication. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17404622.2015.1102303 doi:10.1080/17404622.2015.1102303 doi:10.1080/17404622.2015.1102303 |
| spellingShingle | Persuasion Rhetoric Communication Theory Metaphor Theory Multimodal Communication. Giovanelli, Marcello Activating metaphors: exploring the embodied nature of metaphorical mapping in political discourse |
| title | Activating metaphors: exploring the embodied nature of metaphorical mapping in political discourse |
| title_full | Activating metaphors: exploring the embodied nature of metaphorical mapping in political discourse |
| title_fullStr | Activating metaphors: exploring the embodied nature of metaphorical mapping in political discourse |
| title_full_unstemmed | Activating metaphors: exploring the embodied nature of metaphorical mapping in political discourse |
| title_short | Activating metaphors: exploring the embodied nature of metaphorical mapping in political discourse |
| title_sort | activating metaphors: exploring the embodied nature of metaphorical mapping in political discourse |
| topic | Persuasion Rhetoric Communication Theory Metaphor Theory Multimodal Communication. |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31833/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31833/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31833/ |