ERIC Number: EJ1466899
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-1534-8458
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Biliteracy Metaphor Analysis: Examining Multilingual, Multicultural Pupils' Interpretation of Canon Literature
Mia Kaasby1,2; Nancy H. Hornberger3
Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, v24 n2 p316-332 2025
This article unfolds and argues for Biliteracy Metaphor Analysis (BMA), a methodology for examining the interpretation and use of metaphors in canon literature in a biliteracy context, in this case the canon of Danish literature read and interpreted by multilingual students in a ninth grade classroom. BMA combines Spradley's ethnographic framework with conceptual blending theory, Bakhtin's theory of the literary chronotope, and Hornberger's continua of biliteracy. BMA seeks to guide researchers in examining the interpretive dialogue about Danish canon texts without favoring interpretations of familiar metaphors that only evoke literate trajectories matching the literacy experiences of Danish monolinguals. BMA invites researchers to also account for ways in which pupils critique, transform and expand the familiar Danish registers and already instantiated meaning potential by mapping and reframing metaphors differently and creatively. Applicability of the methodology will be analyzed, exemplified and discussed based on a contextual background consisting of monolingual, bilingual and multilingual pupils interpreting the inherent conceptual metaphors of chronotopes in texts by authors belonging to the canon of Danish literature. Examples from Kaasby's previous Master's thesis will be used to illustrate possible contributions of the methodology when analyzing literacy acquisition.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Monolingualism, Literacy, Figurative Language, Literature, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grade 9, Language Styles, Bilingualism, Masters Theses, Language Processing, Poetry, Linguistic Theory, Taxonomy, Cues, Nonverbal Communication, Verbal Communication, Student Characteristics, Dialogs (Language)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Grade 9; High Schools; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Denmark
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Author Affiliations: 1Aarhus University; 2University College of Northern Denmark; 3University of Pennsylvania