Conceptualizing English academic writing via verbal and manual metaphors
As a powerful cognitive tool, metaphor is used in the educational setting to simplify abstract knowledge for learners. Gesture, the material carrier of thought, can represent abstract concepts in a visual mode. Speakers tend to draw on multimodal resources to make use of both verbal and manual metap...
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Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
2009-04-01
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| Series: | Ibérica |
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| Online Access: | http://www.aelfe.org/documents/08_17_Zhao.pdf |