Open AccessMetaphoring back in the climate crisis
Author(s) -
Edmund Nolan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
working papers in applied linguistics and linguistics at york
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2564-2855
DOI - 10.25071/2564-2855.7
Subject(s) - framing (construction) , metaphor , narrative , comprehension , engineering ethics , frame problem , sociology , generative grammar , ecology , environmental ethics , political science , epistemology , engineering , computer science , civil engineering , artificial intelligence , philosophy , linguistics , biology , programming language
In this work-in-progress, I consider the impacts of generative metaphor, metaphoring, and framing on student engineers’ developing positioning relative to ecological issues in engineering. I consider how engineering, as a symbolic community, is impacted by metaphors and narratives that provide frameworks by which to understand engineering’s relationship to the Earth and ecology. I consider the historical framing of engineering as a “socially captive” practice and consider challenges to that framing. Finally, I consider how knowledge and comprehension of metaphors and metaphoring can inform engineering education, and in particular students’ ongoing interaction with ecologically-related metaphors that frame the agency they have access to in both their education and their future professional practice.