3. A Journey into the Mind: Exploring Metaphors of EFL Pre-Service Teachers in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Takač, Višnja Pavičić; Molnar, Draženka

doi:10.21832/9781783095971-006

TheStatus of English in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2016

DOI: 10.21832/9781783095971-006

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3. A Journey into the Mind: Exploring Metaphors of EFL Pre-Service Teachers in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Višnja Pavičić Takač¹,

Draženka Molnar²

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Journey through the writing process: Metaphors of thesis writing experience

Hanić

Pavlović

Jašić

2018

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This paper aimed to investigate metaphorical images used by master’s students in order to gain an insight into their schemata for thinking about the process of master’s thesis writing. Semistructured interviews on the topic of master’s thesis writing with three students coming from humanities, social sciences and natural sciences served as a corpus from which the data were extracted. The paper analysed participants’ unconscious use of metaphorical language in their narratives, mirroring their perception of the thesis writing process. The results revealed that the participants’ personal experience revolves around the concept of journey as the central image they share and the journey metaphor, along with a group of related specific metaphors, serves to illustrate the complexity of the writing process itself.

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Journey through the writing process: Metaphors of thesis writing experience

Hanić

Pavlović

Jašić

2018

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The power of metaphor in thesis writing process

Hanić,

Pavlović,

Jašić

2023

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The article contributes to the discussion of writing at the master’s level by investigating metaphors underlying the process of writing a master’s thesis from the perspective of graduate students. The analysis focuses on the use of metaphors in semi-structured interviews conducted with graduate students who defended their thesis and reflected on the whole process. Their metaphor use is non-elicited and this rhetorical device is spontaneously used showing that thesis writers conceptualize their research and all it entails in metaphorical terms to a significant extent. Despite the fact that thesis writers themselves were not encouraged to pay attention to or use metaphorical language, their narratives reveal the interplay of metaphors when describing the writing process.

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