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This article investigates the use of friendship metaphors in texts by adult second language writers, in relation
to the occurrence and function of metaphor and the writers’ discursive constructions of identity. The texts come from the final
assessment in Swedish for Immigrants (SFI), a language program in basic Swedish. The analysis confirmed the initial assumption
that the emotional and existentially loaded theme of friendship allows for the use of metaphor. The results also
showed that the experience of writers as newcomers in Sweden played out in the metaphors that were used and their contexts.
In order to categorize the found metaphors, a model was developed to show how systematic
metaphors reflect functions and values related to three thematic categories: guidance and help, belonging and
inclusion, and sharing and solidarity. For several metaphors, the metaphoricity was created through
novel and unidiomatic wording, i.e. a kind of neologism that can be considered a communication strategy.
The importance of using universal and abstract themes in language testing is emphasized, to enable second language
writers to express different facets of experience and knowledge through existential thoughts and attitudes – not only as language
learners and newcomers, but also as social agents who create and keep transnational relations through friends.
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.