Stefanowitsch / Gries / Anatol/ Gries Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019989-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 325 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

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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.

Zielgruppe

Cognitive Linguists; Functional Linguists; Corpus Linguists; Cons

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stefanowitsch,

Th., Stefan

Stefanowitsch, Anatol

Gries, Stefan Th.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Table of contents;5
3;Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy;7
4;Metaphoricity is gradable;23
5;A corpus-based study of metaphors for speech activity in British English;42
6;Words and their metaphors: A corpus-based approach;69
7;The grammar of linguistic metaphors;112
8;Keeping an eye on the data: Metonymies and their patterns;129
9;Metonymic proper names: A corpus-based account;158
10;On groutnolls and nog-heads: A case study of the interaction between culture and cognition in intelligence metaphors;181
11;Sense and sensibility: Rational thought versus emotion in metaphorical language;197
12;A corpus-based analysis of context effects on metaphor comprehension;220
13;Of critical importance: Using electronic text corpora to study metaphor in business media discourse;243
14;Metaphors, motifs and similes across discourse types: Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) at work;273
15;Backmatter;311

Über Autor(innen)

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