Metaphors and Gestures for Abstract Concepts in Academic English Writing
Gestures and metaphors are important mediational tools to materialize abstract conventions in the conceptual development process (Lantolf and Thorne, 2006): metaphors are used in the educational setting to simplify abstract knowledge for learners (Ungerer and Schmidt, 1996; Wee, 2005); gestures, thr...
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The University of Arizona.
2007
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195298 |