On Lenses and Filters: The Role of Metaphor in Policy Theory

Kochis, Bruce

doi:10.1080/10841806.2005.11029480

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“…The results imply that metaphors are important in inspiring audience members. Kochis (2005) suggests that there is a role for metaphors in policy theorisation. It seems that metaphors play an important role in public communication.…”

Section: Many Faces Of Metaphorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adolescents’ Views on Families as Metaphors in Hong Kong: Implications for Pre‐counselling Assessment

Chan

2011

Children & Society

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This interpretative study aims to offer metaphors that describe family meanings from the adolescent’s perspective by encouraging them to give a metaphor with their own explanation on a self‐administering essay form. This study has three objectives: to explore the family meanings as a metaphor from the Hong Kong adolescent’s perspective; to reveal any common and unique features of these metaphors; and to search for the possibilities of collecting metaphors from adolescents as a pre‐counselling assessment tool. The 12 participants for this study were referred to me for family counselling because of poor self‐esteem, loss of life goals or ineffective relationships with their parents. Based on the 12 metaphors, the following five themes can be discerned: (i) gender role in a family, (ii) Chinese culture in a family, (iii) heat in a family, (iv) security in a family and (v) the family as honey and a loan company. Based on the above five themes, there are some common metaphors (e.g. a warm place, honey, a shelter, a boat shelter, a chick and a hen, a volcano, a fire, an oven and a loan company), trans‐cultural and unique metaphors (e.g. a wet market and ‘Kung Fu’ experts), and those that are culturally specified. Both strengths and limitations of collecting and analysing metaphors were discussed.

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Section: Many Faces Of Metaphorsmentioning

confidence: 99%