Qualitative and quantitative examination of metaphorical language use in career-life preparedness

Vocational theories, research, and intervention practices are embodied in, mediated by, and emergent from metaphorical language that is socio-culturally, historically, and intellectually situated in social-political-economic evolution. Although metaphors have been recognised as ubiquitous in communication and fundamental to meaning making in notions of career, workforce, and organisations, metaphor remains underexplored in naturalistic discourse within the field. This chapter introduces a reliable and replicable procedure for metaphor identification: The Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije Universiteit (MIPVU) for application to such discourse. We demonstrate MIPVU using transcribed student testimonials from higher education promotional online videos of an Australian and Norwegian university. MIPVU affords an integrated qualitative and quantitative approach to examine career-life preparedness. We showcase MIPVU as a methodological resource that can enhance understanding of how individuals prepare for, make meaning about, and manage their learning, work, and career development over their lifespan

Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages. MIPVU around the world

Item does not contain fulltextThis volume explores linguistic metaphor identification in a wide variety of languages and language families. The book is an essential read for anyone interested in researching language and metaphor, from students to experienced scholars. Its primary goals are to discuss the challenges involved in applying the Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije Universiteit (MIPVU) to a range of languages across the globe, and to offer theoretically grounded advice and guidelines enabling researchers to identify metaphors in multiple languages in a valid and replicable way. The volume is intended as a practical guidebook that identifies and discusses procedural challenges of metaphor identification across languages, thus better enabling researchers to reliably identify metaphor in a multitude of languages. Although able to be read independently, this volume – written by metaphor researchers from around the world – is the ideal companion volume for the 2010 Benjamins book A Method for Linguistic Metaphor Identification: From MIP to MIPVU.VI, 330 p