How Long to Read Creative Metaphor, Evaluation, and Emotion in Conversations about Work

How Long Does it Take to Read Creative Metaphor, Evaluation, and Emotion in Conversations about Work?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 1 minute to read Creative Metaphor, Evaluation, and Emotion in Conversations about Work by Jeannette Littlemore

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Description

This book explores the roles played by creative and conventional metaphor in expressing positive and negative evaluation within a particular workplace, drawing on interviews with 31 current and former employees of the British Civil Service. Metaphor is often used to express evaluation but relatively few studies have investigated the ways in which metaphor is used to evaluate personal emotionally charged experiences. The volume explores how metaphor serves a predominantly evaluative function, with creatively used metaphors often more likely than conventional metaphors to perform an evaluative function, particularly when the evaluation is negative or ambiguous. The findings provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between evaluation, creativity, and metaphor. Examples, including military metaphors and family metaphors, show how creativity often comes through subverting the norms of use of a particular metaphor category, or altering the valence from its conventional use. The study elucidates the myriad ways in which people push at the boundaries of linguistic creativity in their efforts to describe the qualitative nature of their experiences. Demonstrating how metaphor can be a powerful tool for the nuanced expression of complex and ambiguous evaluation, this book will appeal to researchers interested in better understanding metaphor, creativity, evaluation, and workplace cultures.

How long is Creative Metaphor, Evaluation, and Emotion in Conversations about Work?

Creative Metaphor, Evaluation, and Emotion in Conversations about Work by Jeannette Littlemore is 59 pages long, and a total of 15,281 words.

This makes it 20% the length of the average book. It also has 19% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Creative Metaphor, Evaluation, and Emotion in Conversations about Work Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 23 minutes to read Creative Metaphor, Evaluation, and Emotion in Conversations about Work aloud.

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Creative Metaphor, Evaluation, and Emotion in Conversations about Work is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

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