Understanding Metaphor Through Corpora: A Case Study of Metaphors in Nineteenth Century Writing

ISBN-13: 9780815374978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 220 str.

Katie Patterson

Opis

This volume questions the reliability of attempts to identify metaphor based on dichotomy and instead advocates for the notion that metaphoricity is context-dependent and fluid, in relation to the respective social and discourse contexts in which metaphors can be found.

Spis treści

1. Introduction   2. Metaphor: Theories and Approaches  3. A New Theory for Metaphor  4. Corpus Methodologies and Metaphor   5. Metaphor and Conventionality: Evidence of Metaphors Displaying Lexical Primings through Semantic Association  6. Metaphor and Conventionality: Evidence of Metaphors Displaying Lexical Primings through Colligation  7. Metaphor and Other Forms of Creativity: Polysemy, Simile, Metonymy and Their Relationship to Metaphor  8. Conclusion

O autorze

Katie Patterson has taught at the University of Liverpool, U.K., the University of Eastern Finland, and Universidad Austral de Chile.