1. What Happens When We Read
Laurence Musgrove
Department of English and Modern Languages
Angelo State University
www.laurencemusgrove.com

2. draw a picture
of what happens when you read

11. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of
which we both think and act, is
fundamentally metaphorical in nature.
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Metaphors We Live By

12. Metaphor is a linguistic equation; an
analogy that compares two unlike things
in order to better understand one or both
of those unlike things.
• “You broke my heart.”
• “I feel down today.”
• “She makes my heart sing.”
• “Call me when you feel up to going
out.”

13. We use metaphors to think and talk about
how we read.

14. metaphors
we read by
see the handout!

22. reading is a bodily experience

29. despair

30. school failure

31. education = commodity

32. know-what
vs.
know-how

33. consumption
&
control

35. resistance to oppressive experiences
in school may be good
even though the consequences
may be unfortunate

37. aesthetic experience
is not transferable

38. no one can read
a book for you

39. reading is the cognitive
embodiment
of individual liberty

41. reading is the cognitive
embodiment
of identification
and association
with others

43. the end of the teaching of reading
should be to provide students
with free and faithful experiences
with books

44. reading is a private and public good
where we learn
with our entire human organ
the privileges and responsibilities
that come with living
in a democratic society

45. choice in texts
and
choice in response