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Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy / edited by Anatol Stefanowitsch, Stefan Th. Gries.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 171
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metaphor--Data processing.
- Metaphor.
- Metonyms--Data processing.
- Metonyms.
- Cognitive grammar--Data processing.
- Cognitive grammar.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Table of contents
- Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy
- Metaphoricity is gradable
- A corpus-based study of metaphors for speech activity in British English
- Words and their metaphors: A corpus-based approach
- The grammar of linguistic metaphors
- Keeping an eye on the data: Metonymies and their patterns
- Metonymic proper names: A corpus-based account
- On groutnolls and nog-heads: A case study of the interaction between culture and cognition in intelligence metaphors
- Sense and sensibility: Rational thought versus emotion in metaphorical language
- A corpus-based analysis of context effects on metaphor comprehension
- Of critical importance: Using electronic text corpora to study metaphor in business media discourse
- Metaphors, motifs and similes across discourse types: Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) at work
- Back matter
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612194948
- 9781282194946
- 1282194941
- 9783110199895
- 3110199890
- OCLC:
- 476023433
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