Metaphor in use : context, culture, and communication / edited by Fiona MacArthur ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Macarthur, Fiona.

Series:

Human Cognitive Processing

Human cognitive processing (HCP) ; 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphor.

Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Metaphoric language is very much the product of human action, and many scholars now claim that metaphor in language arises from metaphors in thought. But the reasons for why we think metaphorically and speak (gesture) in these ways may be rooted in principles of self-organization that describe the existence, and forms, of many other animate and inanimate things, ranging from snowflakes to termite nests. This chapter describes the benefits of looking at metaphor from a self-organizational point of view, known as dynamical systems theory, and suggests how this perspective can solve several long-

Contents:

Metaphor in Use; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Background; 2. The contributions to this volume; 2.1 Part 1: Contexts of research; 2.2 Part 2: Contexts of production; 2.3 Part 3: Contexts of interpretation; 2.4 Part 4: Metaphor, topic, and discourse; 2.5 Part 5: Metaphor and culture; 2.6 Part 6: Afterword and prospects for future research; References; Part 1. Contexts of research; Chapter 1. An assessment of metaphor retrieval methods; 1. Introduction; 2. Metaphor retrieval procedures examined in this chapter

3. Reading portions of the corpus for candidates4. Concordancing: Search term choice; 5. Clustering; 6. WordSmith Tools keywords; 7. Metaphor Candidate Identifier; 8. Semantic relatedness; 9. Conclusion; References; Chapter 2. Metaphor in discourse; 1. MIP and linguistic metaphor identification; 2. MIP and metaphor in discourse; 3. MIP and other manifestations of metaphor; 4. Issue 1: Source or target domain?; 5. Issue 2: Literal or metaphorical comparison?; 6. Issue 3: Analysis of proper names; 7. Issue 4: Cultural references; 8. Conclusions; References

Chapter 3. Metaphor identification in Dutch discourse1. Introduction; 1.1 Studies in metaphor; 1.2 MIP Pragglejaz: An explicit method; 1.3 MIPVU: Additions and alterations; 2. Dutch discourse and metaphor identification; 2.1 Dutch discourse; 2.2 Differences in deciding about words; 2.3 A more basic meaning: The dictionary problem; 2.4 Other metaphor forms: Checklists in Dutch?; 3. Conclusion; References; Chapter 4. Locating metaphor candidates in specialized corpora using raw frequency and keyword lists; 1. Introduction; 2. What is a metaphor?; 3. Locating metaphors in text

4. Locating metaphor candidates4.1 Background; 4.2 Preliminaries; 4.3 Establishing the thematic content of the specialized corpus; 4.4 Grouping and classifying low frequency content words; 5. Further technicalities; 5.1 A note on high and low frequencies; 5.2 Comparing corpora; 6. Conclusions; References; Part 2. Contexts of production; Chapter 5. Metaphor variation across L1 and L2 speakers of English; 1. Introduction; 2. Linguistic metaphor and embodied experience; 3. Cross-linguistic influence and transfer; 4. General method and material

5. How often are the terms 'path', 'road', and 'way' used in metaphorical ways?6. How are metaphorical 'paths', 'roads', and 'ways' described?; 7. How are spatial relationships including 'paths', 'roads', or 'ways' described?; 8. What do we do 'on', 'along', or 'near' the metaphorical 'path', 'road', and 'way'?; 9. Conclusion; References; Corpora:; Chapter 6. Metaphorical expressions in L2 production; 1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Research questions; 4. Data; 5. Metaphorical sense; 6. The base line: The use of ta in L1 = Norwegian; 7. The use of ta in L2 = Norwegian

8. Comparison between the Norwegian-as-L1 group and the Norwegian-as-L2 groups

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283894845

128389484X

9789027273468

9027273464

OCLC:

814018434