Cognition in (inter)action: multimodal metaphors produced during a lesson of German as a Foreign Language

The article explore how metaphoricity is expressed through the multimodal metaphors produced by a German-native-speaker teacher and Brazilian learners of German as a Foreign Language when discussing possible metaphorical meanings of the preposition and verbal prefix über. The lesson, which was taugh...

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Main Author: Adriana Fernandes Barbosa
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul 2019-01-01
Series:Signo
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Online Access:https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/signo/article/view/12713
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spelling doaj-2356423bd31e4124be9799834d0770242020-11-25T02:01:51ZporUniversidade de Santa Cruz do SulSigno0101-18121982-20142019-01-014479182810.17058/signo.v44i79.127135574Cognition in (inter)action: multimodal metaphors produced during a lesson of German as a Foreign LanguageAdriana Fernandes Barbosa0Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisThe article explore how metaphoricity is expressed through the multimodal metaphors produced by a German-native-speaker teacher and Brazilian learners of German as a Foreign Language when discussing possible metaphorical meanings of the preposition and verbal prefix über. The lesson, which was taught for undergraduates at a Brazilian university, was videotaped. The interactions were transcribed using the conventions GAT 2 and gestures were described based on Cienki (2010). Based on the concepts of Conceptual Fluency by Danesi (1995) as well as the dynamic aspects of metaphoricity by Müller and Cienki (2009), the analysis revealed how metaphor thinking is indeed embodied and how such embodiment can be explored in the classroom.https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/signo/article/view/12713multimodal metaphors, prepositions and verbal prefixes, German as a Foreign Language
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Cognition in (inter)action: multimodal metaphors produced during a lesson of German as a Foreign Language
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title Cognition in (inter)action: multimodal metaphors produced during a lesson of German as a Foreign Language
title_short Cognition in (inter)action: multimodal metaphors produced during a lesson of German as a Foreign Language
title_full Cognition in (inter)action: multimodal metaphors produced during a lesson of German as a Foreign Language
title_fullStr Cognition in (inter)action: multimodal metaphors produced during a lesson of German as a Foreign Language
title_full_unstemmed Cognition in (inter)action: multimodal metaphors produced during a lesson of German as a Foreign Language
title_sort cognition in (inter)action: multimodal metaphors produced during a lesson of german as a foreign language
publisher Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul
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publishDate 2019-01-01
description The article explore how metaphoricity is expressed through the multimodal metaphors produced by a German-native-speaker teacher and Brazilian learners of German as a Foreign Language when discussing possible metaphorical meanings of the preposition and verbal prefix über. The lesson, which was taught for undergraduates at a Brazilian university, was videotaped. The interactions were transcribed using the conventions GAT 2 and gestures were described based on Cienki (2010). Based on the concepts of Conceptual Fluency by Danesi (1995) as well as the dynamic aspects of metaphoricity by Müller and Cienki (2009), the analysis revealed how metaphor thinking is indeed embodied and how such embodiment can be explored in the classroom.
topic multimodal metaphors, prepositions and verbal prefixes, German as a Foreign Language
url https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/signo/article/view/12713
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