Metaphorical Perceptions of Translationand Interpretation Department Students at Kafkas University in Turkey about Themselves
Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 3
Abstract
The aim of this study is to reveal metaphorical perceptions of translation and interpretation department students at Kafkas Unıversıty in Turkey about themselves . The study group consists of 70 students attending to classes regularly during the 2015-2016 academic year. The data for the study were collected through the forms containing prompts “Translation and Interpretation students at Kafkas University are like.................., because they..........”.For the analysis of the data qualitative research method was used. As a result, 64 valid metaphors were determined about the students themselves and these metaphors were categorized under 8 Conceptual groups. The results revealed that mostly used are as follows: Horse (f= 4), flash disk (f= 3), empty box (f= 3), garden (f= 3), soil (f= 3), patient (f= 3), broken car (f= 3), soldier (f= 3), future (f= 3), fruit tree (f= 3), flower (f= 3), family member (f= 3), sapling (f= 3) , seed (f= 2), ant (f= 2), angel (f= 2), sheep (f= 2), broken computer (f= 2), play dough (f= 2), clean page (f= 2), puppet (f= 2), slave (f= 2), hungry wolf (f= 2), fox (f= 2), and baby (f= 2), respectively.
Authors and Affiliations
Gencer Elkılıc, Kadir Bayrakcı, TuranÖzgür Güngör
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