Metadiscursive functions of conceptual metaphor in guided meditatation
Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación November 14, 2025 Ignasi Navarro Ferrando, Antonio-José Silvestre-López
Metadiscourse focuses on the interactional dimension of communication, what Sinclair (1981) called the 'interactive plane', and the coherence of interpersonal resources used to organise discourse (Hyland, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2010). In this vein, we have analysed a corpus of recorded guided meditations from lay and religious meditation contexts. We have searched for explicit signals instantiating...