Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2007

Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy

Edited by: Anatol Stefanowitsch and Stefan Th. Gries

Volume 171 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199895

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The papers in this volume deal with the issue of how corpus data relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have typically investigated with respect to conceptual mappings. The authors in this volume investigate a wide range of issues - the coherence and function of particular metaphorical models, the interaction of form and meaning, the identification of source domains of metaphorical expressions, the relationship between metaphor and discourse, the priming of metaphors, and the historical development of metaphors.

The studies deal with a variety of metaphorical and metonymic source and target domains, including the source domains SPACE, ANIMALS, BODY PARTS, ORGANIZATIONS and WAR, and the target domains VERBAL ACTIVITY, ECONOMY, EMOTIONS and POLITICS. In their studies, the authors present a variety of corpus-linguistic methods for the investigation of conceptual mappings, for example, corpora annotated for semantic categories, concordances of individual source-domain items and patterns, and concordances of target-domain items.

In sum, the papers in this volume show how a wide range of corpus-linguistic methods can be used to investigate a variety of issues in cognitive linguistics; the combination of corpus methods with a cognitive-linguistic view of metaphor and metonymy yields new answers to old questions (and to new questions) about the relationship between language as a conceptual phenomenon and language as a textual phenomenon.

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Anatol Stefanowitsch, University of Bremen Bremen, Germany; Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

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Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy Anatol Stefanowitsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Metaphoricity is gradable Patrick Hanks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
A corpus-based study of metaphors for speech activity in British English Elena Semino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Words and their metaphors: A corpus-based approach Anatol Stefanowitsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
The grammar of linguistic metaphors Alice Deignan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Keeping an eye on the data: Metonymies and their patterns Martin Hilpert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Metonymic proper names: A corpus-based account Katja Markert and Malvina Nissim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
On groutnolls and nog-heads: A case study of the interaction between culture and cognition in intelligence metaphors Kathryn Allan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Sense and sensibility: Rational thought versus emotion in metaphorical language Päivi Koivisto-Alanko and Heli Tissari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
A corpus-based analysis of context effects on metaphor comprehension James H. Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
Of critical importance: Using electronic text corpora to study metaphor in business media discourse Veronika Koller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Metaphors, motifs and similes across discourse types: Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) at work Alan Partington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Cognitive Linguists; Functional Linguists; Corpus Linguists; Construction Grammarians; Empirical Linguists
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 319
Illustrations
- Other: Numerous fig. and tab.
Keywords: Cognitive linguistics; data analysis; corpora

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Published: August 22, 2008
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Published: March 15, 2006
ISBN: 9783110186048

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Published: July 30, 2007
ISBN: 9783110198270