Metaphor and corpus linguistics / / Alice Deignan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821535203321
• Autore: Deignan Alice
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., 2005
• ISBN: 1-282-15675-6; 9786612156755; 90-272-9447-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Collana: Converging evidence in language and communication research, , 1566-7774 ; ; v. 6
• Disciplina: 808/.00285
• Soggetti: Metaphor - Data processing; Linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Metaphors in language and thought -- A "decorative" viewof metaphor -- Conceptual Metaphor Theory -- Corpus linguistics -- Summary -- I. Current models of metaphor and metonymy -- 1. Conceptual Metaphor Theory and language -- Main tenets of Conceptual Metaphor Theory -- Some implications of Conceptual Metaphor Theory for language description -- Exploring linguistic metaphors as evidence for Conceptual Metaphor Theory -- Summary and conclusion -- 2. Defining metaphor -- Introduction -- Types of linguistic metaphor -- Degrees of metaphoricity: Two models -- Degrees of metaphoricity: A corpus-based classification -- Metaphor and grammar -- Metaphor and "empty" words -- Conclusion -- 3. Metaphor and metonymy -- Introduction -- Metonymy -- Combinations of metaphor and metonymy -- A cline from metaphor to metonymy -- Conclusion -- II. Current research into metaphor -- 4. Corpus research into metaphor -- Corpora and language analysis -- Issues in corpus research -- Using corpora to research metaphor -- Summary -- Note -- 5. Cognitive and psycholinguistic approaches to metaphor research -- Introduction -- Questions -- Research methodologies -- Corpus perspectives on cognitive and ; psycholinguistic research methodology -- Conclusion -- 6. Discourse approaches to metaphor research -- Introduction -- Questions -- Methodology -- The ideological use of metaphor -- Metaphor, meaning and the developing discourse -- A corpus perspective on discourse studies -- Conclusion -- III. The examination of corpus data -- 7. The grammar of metaphor -- Introduction -- Approaches to grammar and metaphor -- Metaphor and part of speech -- Detailed grammatical patterning -- Implications -- Conclusion.; 8. Semantic relations in source and target domains -- Introduction -- Metaphorical mapping -- Corpus investigations: Plants -- Corpus investigations: Light and dark -- Summary and conclusion -- Note -- 9. Metaphor and collocation -- Introduction -- Collocation and corpus data -- Idiom -- Collocation and meaning -- Metaphorical mapping of collocates in the corpus -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- 10. Conclusion -- Introduction -- Language and metaphor -- Corpus linguistics and cognitive metaphor theory -- Further work -- References -- Index -- The series Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research.
• Sommario/riassunto: Metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines, wherever researchers are concerned with how speakers and writers package and process messages. This book is addressed at readers from diverse academic backgrounds who are interested in ways of researching metaphor from different perspectives, and especially through corpus linguistics. A number of approaches to and exploitations of metaphor, including conceptual metaphor theory and cognitive approaches more generally, text and spoken discourse analysis, and CDA, are discussed, explored and critiqued using corpus data. The book also includes corpus linguistic studies of different aspects of metaphor, which investigate its linguistic and semantic properties and relate them to current theoretical views. The book demonstrates the need for naturally-occurring language data to be used in the development of metaphor theory, and shows the value of corpus data and techniques in this work.