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Role of Cultural Metaphors in Teaching: A Survey
Abstract
The present research explores through metaphors the mental images of secondary school students which they use while expressing feelings in Second language .The researcher asks each participant student to fill in the sentence “..... (any feeling) is something like …… (metaphor) because ...” and to express his ideas by using this sentence and focusing on a single metaphor. Data were analyzed by qualitative (content analysis) as well as quantitative techniques. In the light of the data collected the researcher finds that the participants produced 63 valid metaphors for expressing feeling. These metaphors are collected under 5 different conceptual categories as to their common features. Conceptual categories showed significant difference in terms of gender and class level of the students. This situation put forward that metaphors can be used as a research tool for understanding, revealing and explaining the mental images of the students regarding the feeling expressions
Authors
Dr. Behzad Anwar
HOD, Department of English, University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan
Mahmood Ahmad
Lecturer, Institution of Arts and Sciences Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan
Dr. Muhammad Afzal Butt
Associate Professor, GC Women University, Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan
Keywords
Cognition, Culture, Metaphor Usage in Second Language Acquisition
