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

Informationen zum Autor Katie Patterson has taught at the University of Liverpool! U.K.! the University of Eastern Finland! and Universidad Austral de Chile. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Patterson, Katie Patterson, Katie (JoEllen Patterson Patterson, Katie J. Patterson, Patterson Katie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780815374978
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-7497-8
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Language: history & general works, Lexicography, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Language: history and general works, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc