Journey through the writing process: Metaphors of thesis writing experience
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, socia...
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| author | Hanić Jasmina Pavlović Tanja Jašić Alma Jahić |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-02311a86dae24d5e885da492b85680c92025-01-31T08:34:31ZengSciendoExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)2303-48582018-12-016216317910.2478/exell-2020-0003exell-2020-0003Journey through the writing process: Metaphors of thesis writing experienceHanić Jasmina0Pavlović Tanja1Jašić Alma Jahić2University of Tuzla,Bosnia and HerzegovinaUniversity of Tuzla,Bosnia and HerzegovinaUniversity of Tuzla,Bosnia and HerzegovinaThis 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.https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2020-0003writing processmetaphorjourneymaster’s thesiswriting experience |
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