---
_id: '28696'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "The aim of the present study is to bring new momentum into research on students’\r\nunderstanding
    of academic writing. Drawing on the idea that metaphors give insight into\r\nimplicit
    conceptions of abstract entities and processes, we developed a detailed and\r\ndifferentiated
    set of conceptual metaphors that can be used to study student ideas about\r\nwriting
    in research, teaching, and interventions. A large sample of undergraduates produced\r\ntheir
    everyday understanding of writing in short texts beginning with a self-generated\r\nmetaphor.
    Based on theories from cognitive linguistics, the conceptual metaphors in their\r\ntexts
    were analyzed in terms of their action quality (transitivity) and spatiality (spatial\r\nprimitives).
    The undergraduates’ conceptualizations were very heterogeneous. Most\r\nmetaphors
    depart strongly from scientific approaches to academic writing within cognitive\r\npsychology
    and sociocultural theory. Roughly half of the metaphors could be collated to one\r\nof
    four metaphor systems. Depending on the desired degree of abstraction or concreteness,\r\nconceptual
    metaphors or metaphor systems can be employed in further studies to illuminate\r\nthinking
    about writing."
author:
- first_name: Ingrid
  full_name: Scharlau, Ingrid
  id: '451'
  last_name: Scharlau
  orcid: 0000-0003-2364-9489
- first_name: Andrea
  full_name: Karsten, Andrea
  id: '53917'
  last_name: Karsten
  orcid: 0000-0003-0194-2000
- first_name: Katharina
  full_name: Rohlfing, Katharina
  id: '50352'
  last_name: Rohlfing
citation:
  ama: Scharlau I, Karsten A, Rohlfing K. Building, emptying out, or dreaming? Action
    structures and space in undergraduates’ metaphors of academic writing. <i>Journal
    of Writing Research</i>. 2021;12(3):493-529. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.17239/jowr-2021.12.03.01">10.17239/jowr-2021.12.03.01</a>
  apa: Scharlau, I., Karsten, A., &#38; Rohlfing, K. (2021). Building, emptying out,
    or dreaming? Action structures and space in undergraduates’ metaphors of academic
    writing. <i>Journal of Writing Research</i>, <i>12</i>(3), 493–529. <a href="https://doi.org/10.17239/jowr-2021.12.03.01">https://doi.org/10.17239/jowr-2021.12.03.01</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Scharlau_Karsten_Rohlfing_2021, title={Building, emptying out,
    or dreaming? Action structures and space in undergraduates’ metaphors of academic
    writing}, volume={12}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.17239/jowr-2021.12.03.01">10.17239/jowr-2021.12.03.01</a>},
    number={3}, journal={Journal of Writing Research}, author={Scharlau, Ingrid and
    Karsten, Andrea and Rohlfing, Katharina}, year={2021}, pages={493–529} }'
  chicago: 'Scharlau, Ingrid, Andrea Karsten, and Katharina Rohlfing. “Building, Emptying
    out, or Dreaming? Action Structures and Space in Undergraduates’ Metaphors of
    Academic Writing.” <i>Journal of Writing Research</i> 12, no. 3 (2021): 493–529.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.17239/jowr-2021.12.03.01">https://doi.org/10.17239/jowr-2021.12.03.01</a>.'
  ieee: 'I. Scharlau, A. Karsten, and K. Rohlfing, “Building, emptying out, or dreaming?
    Action structures and space in undergraduates’ metaphors of academic writing,”
    <i>Journal of Writing Research</i>, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 493–529, 2021, doi: <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.17239/jowr-2021.12.03.01">10.17239/jowr-2021.12.03.01</a>.'
  mla: Scharlau, Ingrid, et al. “Building, Emptying out, or Dreaming? Action Structures
    and Space in Undergraduates’ Metaphors of Academic Writing.” <i>Journal of Writing
    Research</i>, vol. 12, no. 3, 2021, pp. 493–529, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.17239/jowr-2021.12.03.01">10.17239/jowr-2021.12.03.01</a>.
  short: I. Scharlau, A. Karsten, K. Rohlfing, Journal of Writing Research 12 (2021)
    493–529.
date_created: 2021-12-13T10:30:14Z
date_updated: 2023-12-21T08:38:01Z
department:
- _id: '424'
- _id: '749'
doi: 10.17239/jowr-2021.12.03.01
intvolume: '        12'
issue: '3'
keyword:
- metaphor analysis
- academic writing
- transitivity
- spatial primitives
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
oa: '1'
page: 493-529
publication: Journal of Writing Research
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 2030-1006
  - 2294-3307
publication_status: published
status: public
title: Building, emptying out, or dreaming? Action structures and space in undergraduates’
  metaphors of academic writing
type: journal_article
user_id: '53917'
volume: 12
year: '2021'
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