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Dear all The next Centre for Language Education Research seminar at University of Leeds will take place on Wednesday, 18 November, 1-2, in the Coach House at Hillary Place. Alice Deignan and Shirley Paul from University of Leeds will be talking about their AHRC project on Translating science for young people (abstract below). Seminars are free and open to all, and we look forward to welcoming you. Best wishes Lou Translating science for young people Alice Deignan, Shirley-Anne Paul Scientific issues are central to young people's future lives as active citizens, yet the texts produced by scientists for their peers are not generally accessible to non-specialists. Young people receive scientific and socio-scientific information through school textbooks, science journalism, digital media and other sources, all of which are 'translations' of specialist knowledge. Metaphor is a central device in this translation of knowledge. Our talk shows how this can be problematic. We begin by describing a study of metaphor use in two specialist research articles about glacier melt and in a popular science article based on the same research. This study found that the popular science 'translation' used different metaphors, and that metaphor use had different functions. For example, the research texts used metaphors in technical terminology and to frame their research ontology, while the popular text used metaphor to narrate and dramatise. We go on to describe a project funded by the AHRC (under the 'Translating Cultures' theme) that researches the metaphors used to discuss climate change in specialist scientific texts and texts written for young people in the UK . We have compiled corpora of expert writing on climate change, texts used by young people, and interviews with young people themselves. We report preliminary findings from the analysis of these corpora, about the frequency of use of different metaphors for climate change, and details of linguistic form, which potentially signal agency, modality and evaluative stance. Dr Lou Harvey Lecturer in TESOL G.14 Hillary Place School of Education University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT UK Tel: 0113 343 9114 Web: http://www.education.leeds.ac.uk/people/academic/Harvey<http://www.education.leeds.ac.uk/people/academic/harvey> [https://outlook.office365.com/owa/service.svc/s/GetFileAttachment?id=AAMkAGU0YzI1NTEwLTgyZjUtNDNlOC05MTczLWUxNjVmY2MyOWY4NwBGAAAAAAA4jADcUuJjTKj1QNEkuylLBwBJwAXIrH%2BoR7J4u%2FfCZNVNArvXgKCGAAA3hqbrMQOISpdZFaqturq6AACF56YJAAABEgAQADnwwptY3%2BtBnMZHMj9Vzro%3D&X-OWA-CANARY=Jczu3kE2dUyPPKcIqozLrkA7GF4tudIYqY8xByRM1nKWXwBGv00qgbM37Hx9s05ah5-mDg2_ao4.] http://www.education.leeds.ac.uk/teacher-training/pgce-open-day *********************************** ESOL-Research is a forum for researchers and practitioners with an interest in research into teaching and learning ESOL. ESOL-Research is managed by James Simpson at the Centre for Language Education Research, School of Education, University of Leeds. To join or leave ESOL-Research, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ESOL-RESEARCH.html To contact the list owner, send an email to [log in to unmask]