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  bibo_abstract:
  - <jats:p>Building on and methodologically extending conceptual metaphor theory,
    the article examines how personal agency as a discursively produced sociopsychological
    phenomenon can be studied in elicited metaphors through a discourse-analytical
    approach. More concretely, the study illustrates how early-career researchers
    experience and express their agency in research writing through personal metaphors
    of academic writing such as riding a roller coaster or baking a wedding cake.
    A two-step discursive analysis adapts Hopper and Thompson's multidimensional approach
    to linguistic transitivity to study agency in language. The analytical approach
    involves both an in-depth parametrized analysis of all metaphors in the sample
    and a qualitative cross-analysis of the data. The results show that the participants'
    metaphors reflect both nuanced personal experiences and cultural expectations
    of academic writing, the writer, and the text. This emphasizes that research writing
    is not only a highly subjective practice but also one that is socially and culturally
    influenced. The article argues that research on agency thus needs elaborate methodological
    tools to trace discursive and sociopsychological trajectories of complex socio-cognitive
    practices like academic writing. This has implications not only for the nexus
    of research writing, identity, and academic enculturation but also for other fields
    focusing on agency in language.</jats:p>@eng
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Andrea
      foaf_name: Karsten, Andrea
      foaf_surname: Karsten
  bibo_doi: 10.3389/flang.2025.1567498
  bibo_volume: 4
  dct_date: 2025^xs_gYear
  dct_isPartOf:
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/2813-4605
  dct_publisher: Frontiers Media SA@
  dct_title: Understanding personal agency through metaphor, or Why academic writing
    is (not) like a roller-coaster ride@
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