Open AccessUsing Metaphor Analysis: MIP and Beyond
Author(s) -
Rodney Pitcher
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2013.1476
Subject(s) - metaphor , intuition , identification (biology) , qualitative analysis , qualitative research , computer science , epistemology , psychology , cognitive science , sociology , linguistics , philosophy , social science , biology , botany
Metaphor analysis is a way of obtaining understanding of a text by identifying and analysing the metaphors used in it. Metaphor analysis, as usually described, uses the researcher’s intuition as a means of identifying the metaphors. MIP, the Metaphor Identification Procedure, uses a more valid and repeatable way of finding the metaphors. MIP may be applied in a way that will produce a quantitative or qualitative result. As a result, the application of MIP links quantitative and qualitative research and their results through one method of identifying the metaphors.