Metaphor and metonymy in the digital age : theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language / edited by Marianna Bolognesi, Mario Brdar, Kristina Despot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bolognesi, Marianna, editor.

Brdar, Mario, editor.

Despot, Kristina, 1978- editor.

Series:

Metaphor in language, cognition, and communication ; Volume 8.

Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication ; Volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphor.

Metonyms.

Digital libraries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 263 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book describes methods, risks, and challenges involved in the construction of metaphor and metonymy digital repositories. The first part of this volume showcases established and new projects around the world in which metaphors and metonymies are harvested and classified. The second part provides a series of cognitive linguistic studies focused on highlighting and discussing theoretical and methodological risks and challenges involved in building these digital resources. The volume is a result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between cognitive linguists, psychologists, and computational scientists supporting an overarching idea that metaphor and metonymy play a central role in human cognition, and that they are deeply entrenched in recurring patterns of bodily experience. Throughout the volume, a variety of methods are proposed to collect and analyze both conceptual metaphors and metonymies and their linguistic and visual expressions.

Contents:

Preface and acknowledgements

Fantastic metaphors and where to find them / Marianna Bolognesi & Kristina Despot

Part I. New methods and digital resources for mining metaphor and metonymy in thought, language, and images

Chapter 1. MetaNet: automated metaphor identification across languages and domains / Eve Sweetser, Oana David & Elise Stickles

Chapter 2. The tripartite typology and the Córdoba Metonymy Database / Antonio Barcelona

Chapter 3. Metaphor in the age of mechanical production: (Or: Turning potential metaphors into deliberate metaphors) / Tony Veale

Chapter 4. VisMet and the crowd: What social tagging reveals about visual metaphors / Marianna Bolognesi, Benjamin Timmermans & Lora Aroyo

Chapter 5. MetaNet.HR: Croatian metaphor repository / Kristina Despot, Mirjana Tonković, Mario Essert, Mario Brdar, Benedikt Perak, Ana Ostroški Anić, Bruno Nahod & Ivan Pandžić

Part II. Reflecting on the risks and challenges involved in building and using repositories of figurative language

Chapter 6. The lexical vs. corpus-based method in the study of metaphors / Zoltán Kövecses, Laura Ambrus, Dániel Hegedus, Ren Imai & Anna Sobczak

Chapter 7. Figurative reasoning in hedged performatives / Klaus-Uwe Panther & Linda L. Thornburg

Chapter 8. Mereology in the flesh / Simon Devylder

Chapter 9. Metaphor repositories and cross-linguistic comparison: Ontological eggs and chickens / Mario Brdar, Rita Brdar-Szabó & Benedikt Perak.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027262295

9027262292