Table of Contents

1. Operationalising metaphor for applied linguistic research; 2. Researching metaphor; 3.Validating metaphor research projects; 4. What Aristotle didn't say; 5. Metaphor and discourse; 6. Identifying and describing metaphor in spoken discourse data; 7. 'Problem framing' and metaphoric accounts of SLA research process; 8. Metaphors as bridges to developing expertise; 9. Corpus-based research into metaphor and its applications to language reference materials; 10 'Captain of my own ship'; 11.'This paper thinks...; 12. When is a dead rainbow not like a dead rainbow?

Promotional Information

This book demonstrates how metaphor needs to be researched using multiple methods of investigation.