Deignan metaphor and corpus linguistics pdf

Claims about the uses and functions of metaphor in discourse benefit from largescale analyses that combine qualitative and quantitative methods. The analysis of metaphor as a cognitive and cultural, rather than solely linguistic, phenomenon has become central as metaphor researchers working within cognitive metaphor theory have drawn attention to the presence of systematic and. Jun 09, 2005 metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines, wherever researchers are concerned with how speakers and writers package and process messages. The lowestpriced, brandnew, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging where packaging is applicable. Jun 15, 20 metaphor makes our thoughts more vivid and fills our communication with richer imagery. Suitable for readers from diverse academic backgrounds who are interested in ways of researching metaphor from different perspectives, and especially through corpus linguistics, this title demonstrates the need for naturallyoccurring language data to be used in the development of metaphor theory, and shows the value of corpus data and techniques. Metaphor and corpus linguistics by deignan, alice ebook.

Pdf linguistic metaphors and collocation in nonliterary. According to hughes 1966 a metaphor is commonly defined as an implied comparison between two things unlike in most respects but alike in the respect in which they are compared. What can metaphor tell us about the language of translation. University of chicago press, chicago, 1980, metaphor also plays an important structural role in the organization and processing of conceptual knowledge. International journal of corpus linguistics 123, 375414. Deignan published corpus linguistics and metaphor find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. A cross linguistic analysis of conceptul metaphors in romanian and english central bank reports 758 or economic growth, terms and phrases which due their current use to conceptual metaphors. Alan cienki department of language and communication, vrije. The book also includes corpus linguistic studies of different aspects of metaphor, which investigate its linguistic and semantic properties and relate them to current. Accurate methods for the statistics of surprise and coincidence. Emergence of metaphor in discourse applied linguistics oxford. Linguistic metaphor, corpus linguistics, metaphor identification procedures, efl students.

Discourse analysis and corpora in her book metaphor and corpus linguistics 2005, deignan points to. The linguistic data used by metaphor researchers has largely been either intuitively derived or taken from small handsorted collections of texts. A corpusbased study of metaphors used to describe syrian. For example, deignan finds that metaphorical and metonymic uses of. Crosslinguistic automated detection of metaphors for poverty. Pdf in this paper, i look at four different aspects of metaphor research from a corpus linguistic perspective, namely. Alan cienki department of language and communication, vrije universiteit amsterdam. Metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines, wherever researchers are concerned with how speakers and writers package and process messages. Barnden 19 conceptual metaphor, human cognition, and the nature of mathematics 339 rafael n.

Corpus data and method the linguistic data the following analyses will be based on come from my current phd research. Using corpus methods to analyse metaphor in discourse. Linguistic metaphors and collocation in nonliterary corpus data. Metaphor in reasoning and feeling 18 metaphor and arti. In her book metaphor and corpus linguistics 2005, deignan points to differ ences between the cognitive and discourse. Metonymy is increasingly recognized as important and is also mentioned. Corpus linguistic data and conceptual metaphor theory find, read and cite all the research. Jan 01, 2005 metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines, wherever researchers are concerned with how speakers and writers package and process messages. Nine issues in metaphor theory and analysis1 deignan, alice. Aug 16, 2018 conceptual metaphor research has benefited from advances in discourse analytic and corpus linguistic methodologies over the years, especially given recent developments with natural language processing nlp technologies. The items were nose, mouth, eye and heart, and their italian translation. Corpus linguistics and metaphor chapter 16 the cambridge.

Corpus linguistic data and conceptual metaphor theory. Nov 20, 2019 corpus linguistics with bncweb a practical guide. A number of researchers now claim that metaphorical transfer often connects semantic domains at the level of thought. Corpus linguistics with bncweb pdf pdf pro downloader. Crosslinguistic automated detection of metaphors for. In their studies, the authors present a variety of corpuslinguistic methods for the investigation of conceptual mappings, for example, corpora annotated for. Alice deignan 2008b explores another facet of conceptual metaphors. The project under the title of metaphor in academic.

Such technologies are now capable of identifying metaphoric expressions across large bodies of text. Sep 08, 2019 a conceptual metaphor also known as a generative metaphor is a metaphor or figurative comparison in which one idea or conceptual domain is understood in terms of another. The course also provides lots of video tutorials on how to use corpus analysis software such as antconc. General implications for metaphor theoryin the first booklength study of metaphor from a corpus linguistic perspective, deignan 2005 provided evidence from the bank of english corpus to support the most general claims made in cmt, especially concerning the frequency of conventional metaphorical expressions, and the ways in which they form. Metaphor and corpus linguistics converging evidence in language and communication research 9781588116475. Recent studies of metaphor have stressed both its importance to thinking and its pervasiveness in language. From linguistic to conceptual metaphors white rose research. 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 quantitative approach to compare collocational patterns in translated and nontranslated texts. Different functions of deliberate metaphor in teaching scientific concepts 65 3. Metaphor identification in efl argumentative writing. As is well known, many, if not most, idioms have their origins in metaphor or metonymy moon 1998, and these also present something of a challenge to lexicography. Different functions of deliberate metaphor in teaching. Developments in two related disciplines, cognitive linguistics and corpus.

Consequently, a number of strategies for extracting linguistic ex pressions. A corpus study of metaphors and metonyms in english and. Pdf exploiting a semantic annotation tool for metaphor. Mar 18, 2021 there is a growing body of research at the interface between metaphor and. Examinations of corpus data usually seek to uncover general patterns in the meaning, semantic domains and form of linguistic metaphors, that is, they take a language perspective to finding and testing conceptual metaphors. Abstract this study aims to examine the metaphors used to describe syrian refugees in jordanian politicoeconomic discourse, adopting a critical metaphor analysis approach for data analysis. Nine issues in metaphor theory and analysis patrick hanks. In this poster, i want to look at metaphors in the speeches. This has implications for formal features of individual linguistic metaphors and for the lexical relations holding between them.

Professor alice deignan school of education university of. This has led to an increase in research acknowledging varying levels of. A corpus study of metaphors and metonyms in english and italian. Metaphor and corpus linguistics alice deignan john benjamins. A corpusbased study of some linguistic features of metaphor core. I compiled a specialised corpus containing political and economic articles from two daily jordanian newspapers. In this paper, we describe the development and exploitation of a corpus based tool for the identification of metaphorical patterns in large datasets. Corpus linguistic research techniques can yield facts about language. Metaphor research and corpus linguistics at lancaster earlier work on metaphor identification and analysis using wmatrix software andrew hardie. Method, analysis, interpretation mooc is an excellent introduction to cl provided by lancaster university via the futurelearn platform. Nevertheless, corpus studies of metaphor use in business sciences cf. Alice deignan is the author of metaphor and corpus linguistics 4.

Corpus observations about the frequency of metaphorical meanings in concor. In cognitive linguistics, the conceptual domain from which we draw the metaphorical expressions required to understand another conceptual domain is known as the. Metaphor and corpus linguistics deignan alice deignan. A corpusbased study of some linguistic features of metaphor. As yet, there have been few attempts to systematically examine metaphorical linguistic expressions in nonliterary corpus data. Alice deignan author of metaphor and corpus linguistics. Alice deignan 2005 identified metaphor as word or expression that is used to talk. Recently corpus linguistics has an important role to play in the study of metaphor in discourse, allowing metaphor research to be grounded in strong empirical data charterisblack, 2004. Deignan 2005 offers a detailed treatment of bottomup approaches to metaphor analysis, with an emphasis on concordancing and how linguistic metaphor is signaled by recurring patterns of use. This highlighted some key linguistic items in english, four of which were chosen for investigation after initial corpus searches showed that they also have extensive metaphorical uses in italian. We show how emergence offers new explanations for the behaviour of metaphoricallyused expressions. Alice deignan metaphor and corpus linguistics pdf february 27, 2019 there is a growing body of research at the interface between metaphor and. The book also includes corpus linguistic studies of different aspects of metaphor, which investigate its linguistic and semantic properties and.