{"year":"2021","status":"public","intvolume":"        12","author":[{"first_name":"Ingrid","orcid":"0000-0003-2364-9489","id":"451","last_name":"Scharlau","full_name":"Scharlau, Ingrid"},{"last_name":"Karsten","id":"53917","full_name":"Karsten, Andrea","first_name":"Andrea","orcid":"0000-0003-0194-2000"},{"first_name":"Katharina","id":"50352","last_name":"Rohlfing","full_name":"Rohlfing, Katharina"}],"volume":12,"title":"Building, emptying out, or dreaming? Action structures and space in undergraduates’ metaphors of academic writing","_id":"28696","publication_identifier":{"issn":["2030-1006","2294-3307"]},"department":[{"_id":"424"},{"_id":"749"}],"user_id":"53917","citation":{"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>","short":"I. Scharlau, A. Karsten, K. Rohlfing, Journal of Writing Research 12 (2021) 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>.","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} }","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>"},"main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1"}],"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_updated":"2023-12-21T08:38:01Z","type":"journal_article","publication":"Journal of Writing Research","oa":"1","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."}],"keyword":["metaphor analysis","academic writing","transitivity","spatial primitives"],"date_created":"2021-12-13T10:30:14Z","publication_status":"published","issue":"3","doi":"10.17239/jowr-2021.12.03.01","page":"493-529"}