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 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110198270
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	07/30/2007
Series:	Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , #171
Pages:	325
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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