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In recent years, personal development has driven increasing interest, and the study of metaphor has expanded to various discourse types. This study aims to explore the metaphors in personal development discourse and determine their schematicity hierarchies, using Carol book as a case study. Metaphor Identification Procedure VU ( ) is used to identify metaphors in the book and Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory is used to establish the relationship between the metaphors identified and primary metaphors. The findings show that topics such as mindset, growth mindset, fixed mindset, success, and failure instantiate correlation and resemblance metaphors. In addition, all the correlation-based metaphors identified in the corpus possess full schematic hierarchies. It entails that they all consist of image schema, domain, frame and mental space levels. Moreover, the findings reveal that in different metaphorical expressions, the same image schema-level metaphor is likely to activate different domain, frame and mental space-level metaphors. Finally, some image schema-level metaphors share the same domain-level metaphor in different schematicity hierarchies, whereas others activate different domain-level metaphors in different schematicity hierarchies.

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Keywords: Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory ; mindset ; personal development discourse ; conceptual metaphor ; schematicity hierarchy

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