Anatol Stefanowitsch,Stefan Th. Gries's Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy (Trends in PDF

By Anatol Stefanowitsch,Stefan Th. Gries

ISBN-10: 3110186047

ISBN-13: 9783110186048

ISBN-10: 3110198274

ISBN-13: 9783110198270

The papers during this quantity take care of the problem of ways corpus information relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have often investigated with admire to conceptual mappings. The authors during this quantity examine a variety of concerns- the coherence and serve as of specific metaphorical types, the interplay of shape and which means, the id of resource domain names of metaphorical expressions, the connection among metaphor and discourse, the priming of metaphors, and the ancient improvement of metaphors.

The experiences take care of various metaphorical and metonymic resource and aim domain names, together with the resource domain names area, ANIMALS, physique components, companies and conflict, and the objective domain names VERBAL task, financial system, feelings and POLITICS. of their experiences, the authors current a number of corpus-linguistic equipment for the research of conceptual mappings, for instance, corpora annotated for semantic different types, concordances of person source-domain goods and styles, and concordances of target-domain goods.

In sum, the papers during this quantity express how quite a lot of corpus-linguistic tools can be utilized to enquire a number of concerns in cognitive linguistics; the mix of corpus equipment with a cognitive-linguistic view of metaphor and metonymy yields new solutions to previous questions (and to new questions) in regards to the dating among language as a conceptual phenomenon and language as a textual phenomenon.

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