Thinking about numbers using space: the role of conceptual metaphors
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Birmingham
Department Name: Department of English Literature
Abstract
My research concerns conceptual metaphor, the notion that we think about abstract domains, such as numbers, in terms of concrete ones, such as space (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). Specifically, I plan to investigate how metaphors aid mathematical reasoning through a multimodal corpus analysis and a series of experiments. The English Language & Applied Linguistics department at the University of Birmingham specialises in cognitive and corpus linguistics and so would be a good fit for my project. My proposed lead supervisor Professor Jeannette Littlemore is a major metaphor scholar who has worked extensively on embodied cognition, and Dr Bodo Winter is an expert in numerical cognition. Dr Marcus Perlman, Professor Ewa Dabrowska and Dr Gareth Carroll could offer additional support.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
Jeannette Littlemore (Primary Supervisor) | |
Greg Woodin (Student) |
Publications
Woodin G
(2020)
'Tiny numbers' are actually tiny: Evidence from gestures in the TV News Archive.
in PloS one
Woodin G
(2022)
Conceptual Metaphor and Graphical Convention Influence the Interpretation of Line Graphs.
in IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Studentship Projects
Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Student Name |
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ES/P000711/1 | 01/10/2017 | 30/09/2027 | |||
2067243 | Studentship | ES/P000711/1 | 01/10/2018 | 30/09/2022 | Greg Woodin |