Markus Deli Girik Allo

Speaking Power into Being: Figurative Language, Authority, and Student Agency in EFL Classrooms

This study examines how figurative and nonliteral language mediates power in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. It focuses on how lecturers use metaphor, analogy, ambiguity, hyperbole, rhetorical questions, contrast, and register shifting to explain content, evaluate understanding, correct behavior, and sha...