Abstract
This research evinces the value of the multidimensional perceptions of the metaphors towards swimming discipline and its relevant certain contexts according to swimming coach candidates. In this article, we used qualitative research paradigm away from positivist approaches to describe and interpret stories and personal experiences of the participants. Fifty-five undergraduate senior students who studied in the department of coaching education in a large South-eastern university were secured homogenously (aged between 21 and 29). Using a semi-structured interview form, data were generated based on six predetermined contexts: swimming, swimming coach, freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. Each context focused participants’ metaphor generation processes. As data generation continued, we also intended to be participant-observer to gain epistemological privilege by participating in and experiencing what is going on. Within the predetermined contexts, thematic analysis conducted through a software package of NVivo 11 Plus emerged seventeen conditions (sub-themes). In the portrait gallery of metaphoric perceptions of coach candidates towards swimming discipline, we found variety in the mental images of each context.
Highlights
Researchers with a social-cognitive orientation focus on how knowledge of the specific situation is determined by a complex interaction between the environment and one’s personal makeup (Weinberg & Daniel, 2015)
The primary purpose of this article was to report and discuss the multidimensional perceptions of the metaphors of swimming discipline and its relevant certain contexts according to swimming coach candidates
This research evinces the value of the multidimensional perceptions of the metaphors towards swimming discipline and its relevant certain contexts according to swimming coach candidates capturing qualitative, cognitive research thinking
Summary
Researchers with a social-cognitive orientation focus on how knowledge of the specific situation is determined by a complex interaction between the environment and one’s personal makeup (Weinberg & Daniel, 2015). In this context, Albert Bandura’s (1986) social-cognitive theory recognizes symbolizing as a fundamental human capability. Metaphor was first developed in 1980 by Lakoff and Johnson’s work of ‘‘Metaphors we live by’’ Their idea in this work known as the starting point of the renewal interest in metaphors in the field of cognitive linguistics view (Lakoff & Johnsen, 1980). It is raining cats and dogs out! a metaphor provides a picture of one’s understanding of complex issues or new situations by mapping an experience in the terminology of another experience (Medin & Ortony, 1989)
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