A1 Journal article (refereed)
Figurative language and ‘doing interculturality’ in a lingua franca : A case study from a study-abroad context (2023)
Johnson, E. (2023). Figurative language and ‘doing interculturality’ in a lingua franca : A case study from a study-abroad context. European Journal of Applied Linguistics, 11(2), 410-433. https://doi.org/10.1515/eujal-2022-0001
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Johnson, Esko
Journal or series: European Journal of Applied Linguistics
ISSN: 2192-9521
eISSN: 2192-953X
Publication year: 2023
Publication date: 26/05/2023
Volume: 11
Issue number: 2
Pages range: 410-433
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publication country: Germany
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eujal-2022-0001
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Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/91374
Abstract
Research has shown how, in a narrative event, people give meanings to and conceptualise their experience in figurative language. The aim of this case study was to explore the figurative language which emerged in the flow of mobile students’ narrative accounts of interculturality. Pragmatic features of talk, including those specific to the lingua franca, were analysed in the participants’ use of figurative language. The data of the exploratory study derived from mobility project interviews conducted with South Korean student teachers at the beginning and end of their short-term stays in Finland. The results revealed, among other things, that metaphors of movement and force were used for ‘doing interculturality’, when the interviewees constructed themselves, others and events in figurative language in the context of the mobility project interview. Using oppositional metaphor (e.g., free-strict) as well as metonymy and hyperbole, the participants presented their views on school education, society and people in the two contexts. By exploring the narrators’ strategies for telling and their discursive construction of roles and positions, it was possible to analyse in more detail the interplay of figurative language and the narrative construction of interculturality.
Keywords: interculturalism; intercultural communication; figures of speech; lingua franca; narrativity; meanings (semantics); concepts (notions); metaphors; metonymy
Free keywords: interculturality; narrative; figurative language; lingua franca
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VIRTA submission year: 2023
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