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An Examination Of The Occurrences Of Metaphor In Introductory Engineering Textbooks, Hartwell S. Francis
An Examination Of The Occurrences Of Metaphor In Introductory Engineering Textbooks, Hartwell S. Francis
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The aim of this study is to identify the use of metaphor in university-level introductory engineering textbooks. Engineering is an important field of study for foreign students in the United States. In order to determine the linguistic and cultural problems foreign students of this field may have, two introductory engineering textbooks are examined for occurrences of metaphors.
Two corpora of 20,000 words each drawn from introductory textbooks used at two four-year, public universities are examined for occurrences of metaphor. A combined semantic and pragmatic test for metaphor is applied to each word used in the corpora to determine if the …