Mashi – this language was in my ears

IF 0.9 Q2 LINGUISTICS

Metaphor and the Social World Pub Date : 2021-10-12 DOI:10.1075/msw.00021.gol

A. Golden, G. Steien

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Abstract

In order to understand the process of learning new languages as adults, we need to take into account learners’ past experiences with all of their language(s), as such experiences shape attitudes and conceptualizations. In this paper, we present an analysis of metaphorical expressions in the narrated linguistic biographies of (former) refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Norway. The participants speak a multitude of languages, e.g., different local Congolese languages, Congolese national languages (Lingala or Swahili), French (the official language of the DRC), in addition to Norwegian (the language of the host society). Attention is paid to how the participants’ expressions align with conceptual metaphors emerged from work in Cognitive Linguistics, such as language is an object, language is a person and language is an identity marker, as well as specifications like language is a tool and language is a possession. We argue that awareness of conceptualizations of ‘language’ can contribute to the development of language training pedagogies that better reflect learners’ past experiences.

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Mashi——这种语言在我耳边

为了理解成年后学习新语言的过程，我们需要考虑学习者过去对所有语言的经历，因为这些经历塑造了态度和概念。在本文中，我们分析了挪威刚果民主共和国（DRC）难民（前）语言传记中的隐喻表达。参与者讲多种语言，例如不同的刚果当地语言、刚果民族语言（林加拉语或斯瓦希里语）、法语（刚果民主共和国的官方语言）以及挪威语（东道国的语言）。关注参与者的表达如何与认知语言学研究中出现的概念隐喻相一致，例如语言是一个对象，语言是一个人，语言是身份标记，以及语言是一种工具，语言是占有物等规范。我们认为，对“语言”概念化的认识有助于语言培训教学法的发展，更好地反映学习者的过去经历。

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Metaphor and the Social World LINGUISTICS-

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2.20

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11.10%

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期刊介绍： The journal Metaphor and the Social World aims to provide a forum for researchers to share with each other, and with potential research users, work that explores aspects of metaphor and the social world. The term “social world” signals the importance given to context (of metaphor use), to connections (e.g. across social, cognitive and discourse dimensions of metaphor use), and to communication (between individuals or across social groups). The journal is not restricted to a single disciplinary or theoretical framework but welcomes papers based in a range of theoretical approaches to metaphor, including discourse and cognitive linguistic approaches, provided that the theory adequately supports the empirical work. Metaphor may be dealt with as either a matter of language or of thought, or of both; what matters is that consideration is given to the social and discourse contexts in which metaphor is found. Furthermore, “metaphor” is broadly interpreted and articles are welcomed on metonymy and other types of figurative language. A further aim is to encourage the development of high-quality research methodology using metaphor as an investigative tool, and for investigating the nature of metaphor use, for example multi-modal discourse analytic or corpus linguistic approaches to metaphor data. The journal publishes various types of articles, including reports of empirical studies, key articles accompanied by short responses, reviews and meta-analyses with commentaries. The Forum section publishes short responses to papers or current issues.