Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy / / ed. by Anatol Stefanowitsch, Stefan Th. Gries.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Allan, Kathryn,; Deignan, Alice,; Hanks, Patrick,; Hilpert, Martin,; Koivisto-Alanko, Päivi,; Koller, Veronika,; Markert, Katja,; Martin, James H.,; Nissim, Malvina,; Partington, Alan,; Semino, Elena,; Stefanowitsch, Anatol,; Tissari, Heli,
• HerausgeberIn: Gries, Stefan Th.,; Stefanowitsch, Anatol,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2007
• Año de Publicación: 2008
• Lenguaje: English
• Colección: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 171
• Descripción Física: 1 online resource (319 p.) :; Numerous fig. and tab.

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.

Table of Contents

i-iv -- Table of contents -- Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and -- metonymy -- Metaphoricity is gradable -- A corpus-based study of metaphors for speech -- activity in British English -- Words and their metaphors: A corpus-based -- approach -- The grammar of linguistic metaphors -- Keeping an eye on the data: Metonymies and their -- patterns -- Metonymic proper names: A corpus-based -- account -- On groutnolls and nog-heads: A case study of the -- interaction between culture and cognition in intelligence -- metaphors -- Sense and sensibility: Rational thought versus -- emotion in metaphorical language -- A corpus-based analysis of context effects on -- metaphor comprehension -- Of critical importance: Using electronic text -- corpora to study metaphor in business media discourse -- Metaphors, motifs and similes across discourse -- types: Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) at work -- 305-319