Anke Beger visits the Metaphor Lab
Thursday, October 1st, Anke Beger (Flensburg University) will visit Metaphor Lab Amsterdam for a couple of days to talk about the research on deliberate metaphor that she is conducting for her doctoral thesis.
“In my doctoral research, I investigate how professors communicate knowledge in their lectures. Since communicating knowledge on college level primarily involves teaching abstract concepts, and since metaphors, by definition (e.g., Lakoff & Johnson 1980), involve understanding a more abstract domain in terms of a more concrete one, I focus on the professors’ use of metaphors in my analysis.”
On Tuesday 6 October, she will present her work during a research meeting.