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“Life is a rollercoaster”: A cognitive discourse analysis of school-agers’ understanding of meaning in life

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Discourse Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Text and Talk

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Abstract

Discourse Studies, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 276-298, April 2026.
While the human quest for meaning in life is widely studied across various disciplines, research examining how children discursively construct and communicate this concept remains underexplored. Extensive cognitive linguistic research on meaning in life ...