Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy

Anatol Stefanowitsch, Stefan Th. Gries

Walter de Gruyter, Aug 22, 2008 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 325 pages

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

• Corpusbased approaches to metaphor and metonymy: 1
• Metaphoricity is gradable: 17
• A corpusbased study of metaphors for speech activity in British English: 36
• A corpusbased approach: 63
• The grammar of linguistic metaphors: 106
• Metonymies and their patterns: 123
• A corpusbased account: 152
• A case study of the interaction between culture and cognition in intelligence metaphors: 175
• Rational thought versus emotion in metaphorical language: 191
• A corpusbased analysis of context effects on metaphor comprehension: 214
• Using electronic text corpora to study metaphor in business media discourse: 237
• CorpusAssisted Discourse Studies CADS at work: 267
• Backmatter: 305

About the author

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

Bibliographic information

• Title: Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy; Volume 171 of Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
• Editors: Anatol Stefanowitsch, Stefan Th. Gries
• Edition: illustrated, annotated
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, 2008
• ISBN: 3110199890, 9783110199895
• Length: 325 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Artificial Intelligence / Natural Language Processing; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative