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26 October 2025

A Practical Study of AI-Empowered Interactive Metaphor Teaching in Middlemarch

Jiemin Han1
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1 Taiyuan Open University, Taiyuan 030024, Shanxi, China
CEF 2025 , 3(9), 23–27; https://doi.org/10.18063/CEF.v3i9.1069
© 2025 by the Author. Licensee Whioce Publishing, Singapore. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

Against the backdrop of digital humanities integration into literary education, metaphor teaching of Middlemarch has long been plagued by pedagogical dilemmas, including fragmented metaphorical system perception, cultural contextual disconnection, and inadequate exploration of Humanistic implications. To address these issues, an AI-empowered interactive metaphor teaching approach grounded in Lakoff’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory is proposed. This approach provides a scientific methodological framework for literary metaphor instruction, reconciles technological rationality with humanistic values, and facilitates the integration of digital humanities in literature curricula.

Keywords
AI-empowered
Interactive metaphor teaching
Middlemarch
Digital humanities
Funding
The 2025 Annual Project of Shanxi Provincial Modern Distance Education Association, “Research on the Human-Machine Collaborative Model of Integrating Shanxi Regional Culture into College Foreign Language Education Empowered by Digital Intelligence” (Project No.: SXYJ202503)
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[5] Lakoff G, Johnson M, 1980, Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago Press: 3–9.

[6] Gibbs R, 1994, The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding. Cambridge University Press: 76–88.

[7] Eliot G, 2003, Middlemarch. Penguin Classics. (Original work published 1871).

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