Main description:
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.
Table of contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I.: Current models of metaphor and metonymy
- 1. Conceptual Metaphor Theory and language
- 2. Defining metaphor
- 3. Metaphor and metonymy
- Part II: Current research into metaphor
- 4. Corpus research into metaphor
- 5. Cognitive and psycholinguistic approaches to metaphor research
- 6. Discourse approaches to metaphor research
- Part III. The examination of corpus data
- 7. The grammar of metaphor
- 8. Semantic relations in source and target domains
- 9. Metaphor and collocation
- 10. Conclusion
- References
- Index
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.
Table of contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I.: Current models of metaphor and metonymy
- 1. Conceptual Metaphor Theory and language
- 2. Defining metaphor
- 3. Metaphor and metonymy
- Part II: Current research into metaphor
- 4. Corpus research into metaphor
- 5. Cognitive and psycholinguistic approaches to metaphor research
- 6. Discourse approaches to metaphor research
- Part III. The examination of corpus data
- 7. The grammar of metaphor
- 8. Semantic relations in source and target domains
- 9. Metaphor and collocation
- 10. Conclusion
- References
- Index