Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy

by Anatol Stefanowitsch (Editor), Stefan Th. Gries (Editor)

Overview

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 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110199895
Publisher:	De Gruyter Mouton
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Series:	Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	319
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy   Anatol Stefanowitsch     1
Metaphoricity is gradable   Patrick Hanks     17
A corpus-based study of metaphors for speech activity in British English   Elena Semino     36
Words and their metaphors: A corpus-based approach   Anatol Stefanowitsch     63
The grammar of linguistic metaphors   Alice Deignan     106
Keeping and eye on the data: Metonymies and their patterns   Martin Hilpert     123
Metonymic proper names: A corpus-based account   Katja Markert   Malvina Nissim     152
On groutnolls and nog-heads: A case study of the interaction between culture and cognition in intelligence metaphors   Kathryn Allan     175
Sense and sensibility: Rational thought versus emotion in metaphorical language   Paivi-Koivisto-Alanko   Heli Tissari     191
A corpus-based analysis of context effects on metaphor comprehension   James H. Martin     214
Of critical importance: Using electronic text corpora to study metaphor in business media discourse   Veronika Koller     237
Metaphors, motifs and similes across discourse types: Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) at work   Alan Partington     267
Author index     305
Subject index     308
Index of domains and mappings     311