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Title
A USE FOR LINGUISTICS IN COMPOSITION A BLENDING THEORY APPROACH TO METAPHOR IN THE WRITING CLASS
Date of Award
2014
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy in Rhetoric and Technical Communication (PhD)
College, School or Department Name
Department of Humanities
First Advisor
Robert R. Johnson
Abstract
Academic approaches to the teaching of writing have been notable for being open to drawing from a variety of disciplines. One field has been largely absent from the writing studies scene for the past three decades. In this dissertation I address this gap by introducing a new branch of linguistics (Usage-based linguistics) to writing studies scholars and practitioners, focusing on two of its theories of metaphor (Lakoff and Johnson's 1980 Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Fauconnier and Turner's 1998 Blending Theory), and relating how I have brought them to bear in my writing classes. By doing so, I hope to provide writing teachers with a conceptual approach to meaning-making that relates language to thought, one which can strengthen their students' abilities to recognize and improve their skills in these negotiating processes in and through thinking, discussing, and writing for the audience.
Recommended Citation
Markve, Stephen, "A USE FOR LINGUISTICS IN COMPOSITION A BLENDING THEORY APPROACH TO METAPHOR IN THE WRITING CLASS", Dissertation, Michigan Technological University, 2014.