Thinking about numbers using space: the role of conceptual metaphors

我的研究涉及概念隐喻，即我们根据具体的领域（如空间）来思考抽象的领域（如数字）的概念（Lakoff &约翰逊，1980）。具体而言，我计划通过多模态语料分析和一系列实验来研究隐喻如何帮助数学推理。伯明翰大学的英语语言与应用语言学系专门研究认知语言学和语料库语言学，因此非常适合我的项目。我的首席导师珍内特·利特莫尔教授是一位重要的隐喻学者，她在具身认知方面做了大量的工作，博多·温特博士是数字认知方面的专家。Marcus Perlman博士、Ewa Dabrowska教授和Gareth卡罗尔博士可以提供额外的支持。

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.