What's in a name? The quest for new metaphors for second language acquisition

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Autor(a) principal: Paiva,Vera Lucia Menezes Oliveira e
Data de Publicação: 2014
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Trabalhos em Lingüística Aplicada (Online)
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-18132014000100008
Resumo: The present article focuses on a series of metaphors found in texts on language and language learning, and discusses the criticisms of the acquisition metaphor and the addition of participation as a new concept to represent language learning. The main theoretical proposals for second language acquisition (SLA) have been selected in order to verify which theories use acquisition and which use participation. While scrutinizing those texts, I found that other metaphors have also been proposed; however, acquisition and participation are still the most prevalent. Participation has been used as a metaphor since Sfard (1998) and has been well accepted in Applied Linguistics. Therefore, I present the cognitive view of metaphor and metonymy and demonstrate that, according to the cognitive studies on metaphor, participation cannot be seen as a metaphor, but rather as a metonym. To prove this, I use the metonymic model proposed by Lakoff (1990) as support. I conclude, agreeing with Ortega (2009) that a metaphorical polyphony can help us understand the complex phenomenon of language and language learning. Nevertheless, metonyms must not be disregarded.
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title What's in a name? The quest for new metaphors for second language acquisition
spellingShingle What's in a name? The quest for new metaphors for second language acquisition
Paiva,Vera Lucia Menezes Oliveira e
second language acquisition
participation metaphor
metaphor, metonym
title_short What's in a name? The quest for new metaphors for second language acquisition
title_full What's in a name? The quest for new metaphors for second language acquisition
title_fullStr What's in a name? The quest for new metaphors for second language acquisition
title_full_unstemmed What's in a name? The quest for new metaphors for second language acquisition
title_sort What's in a name? The quest for new metaphors for second language acquisition
author Paiva,Vera Lucia Menezes Oliveira e
author_facet Paiva,Vera Lucia Menezes Oliveira e
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Paiva,Vera Lucia Menezes Oliveira e
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv second language acquisition
participation metaphor
metaphor, metonym
topic second language acquisition
participation metaphor
metaphor, metonym
description The present article focuses on a series of metaphors found in texts on language and language learning, and discusses the criticisms of the acquisition metaphor and the addition of participation as a new concept to represent language learning. The main theoretical proposals for second language acquisition (SLA) have been selected in order to verify which theories use acquisition and which use participation. While scrutinizing those texts, I found that other metaphors have also been proposed; however, acquisition and participation are still the most prevalent. Participation has been used as a metaphor since Sfard (1998) and has been well accepted in Applied Linguistics. Therefore, I present the cognitive view of metaphor and metonymy and demonstrate that, according to the cognitive studies on metaphor, participation cannot be seen as a metaphor, but rather as a metonym. To prove this, I use the metonymic model proposed by Lakoff (1990) as support. I conclude, agreeing with Ortega (2009) that a metaphorical polyphony can help us understand the complex phenomenon of language and language learning. Nevertheless, metonyms must not be disregarded.
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