Metaphor and corpus linguistics:
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Main Author: Deignan, Alice (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam J. Benjamins Pub. ©2005
Series:Converging evidence in language and communication research v. 6
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231) and index
Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. Current models of metaphor and metonymy; 1. Conceptual Metaphor Theory and language; 2. Defining metaphor; 3. Metaphor and metonymy; II. Current research into metaphor; 4. Corpus research into metaphor; 5. Cognitive and psycholinguistic approaches to metaphor research; 6. Discourse approaches to metaphor research; III. The examination of corpus data; 7. The grammar of metaphor; 8. Semantic relations in source and target domains; 9. Metaphor and collocation
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 inc
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 235 pages)
ISBN:902729447X
9789027294470

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