A collection of the entire written texts produced by informants in two metaphor elicitation studies. The main study involved Norwegian upper secondary students over a semester, with a second study involving Finnish college students via an online survey, with data collected at two time points in each study. The dataset includes elicited metaphors, justifications, and supplementary materials like consent forms and interview guides.
Use Cases
- Analyze metaphor production and justification texts from Norwegian and Finnish L2 English learners to study language acquisition patterns.
- Compare metaphor elicitation outcomes at the start and end of a semester-long intervention in a Norwegian classroom setting.
- Examine the influence of the Coronavirus pandemic context on metaphor creation in written texts from the Finnish college student survey.
- Study the relationship between classroom exercises, elicitation tasks, and the metaphors produced by the Norwegian informants.
Strengths
- Data collected at two distinct time points (start and end of semester) for longitudinal analysis.
- Includes supplementary materials like metadata questionnaires, consent forms, and interview guides for context.
- Covers two distinct educational and geographic contexts: Norwegian upper secondary and Finnish college students.
Limitations
- Sample size and demographic scope are limited to specific classroom and survey groups in Norway and Finland.
- Data consists of qualitative written texts, requiring manual or NLP-based coding for quantitative analysis.
- The dataset's primary focus is on replication and supplementary data, which may limit its standalone analytical utility.
Provenance
- Source
- DataverseNO Harvested Dataverse, authored by Susan Nacey.
- Collection Method
- Elicitation via written texts from a classroom intervention in Norway and an online survey in Finland.
- Time Range
- Data collected over the course of a semester for the Norwegian study; specific dates for Finnish survey are unknown.
- Freshness
- Last updated on 2025-11-04.
- Geography
- Norway and Finland.