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Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics: Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus offers a model for building a corpus of oral EMI seminars. It demonstrates how incorporating metaphor to the process of corpus building affords a more comprehensive description of the role of metaphor in discourse.
List of contents
Acknowledgements1: Metaphor and Corpus LinguisticsIntroductionIntroduction to a cognitive-linguistic approach to metaphorMetaphor in thought vs metaphor in languageLinguistic approaches to metaphor: basic context for a corpus-linguistic methodologyMain research perspectives to naturally occurring metaphorsCorpus data
Sample identification methods
Automated metaphor searching
Census identification methods: corpora fully tagged for metaphor
ConclusionNoteReferences2: English as a Medium of InstructionEnglish as a lingua francaEnglish taught programmes in higher educationDefining EMI: distinctive traitsMetaphor in EMIMetaphor in academic English
Metaphor in language teaching
Metaphor in L2 acquisition
Metaphor in ELF
ConclusionReferences3: Introducing the MetCLIL corpusExplaining the need for MetCLILStructure of the corpus: description of recorded eventsSection A: EMI provision in Southern Europe
Section B: EMI provision in North and Central Europe
Describing participantsNumber of participants
Demographic data
Internationalisation
English proficiency
Using MetCLIL onlineConclusionNotesReferences4: Building MetCLILCriteria used in building METCLILSize
Representativeness
Authenticity
Balance
Main design features: key MetCLIL variablesGenre
Institutions and countries
Participants
Data CollectionRecruitment
Recording
Results of data collection
TranscriptionIntroduction
Non-verbal data
Verbal data
Added information: contextual and structural mark-up
Anonymisation
TokenisationPart of speech mark-up
ConclusionNotes References5: Metaphor taggingIntroduction to metaphor identification methodsMetaphor Identification Procedure (MIP)
Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije University (MIPVU)
Particular cases of metaphor analysisDetermining lexical unitsConclusionNotesReferences6: Quantifying metaphor use. The role of external variablesQuantitative methods in the study of metaphorQuantitative studies in register and genre variationMetaphor density in MetCLILVariation in MetCLIL
ConclusionReferences7: Individual variablesIndividual variables in metaphor useL2 metaphor useMetaphorical competence
Metaphor in L2 production
L1 induced variation: the role of transferSpeaker's roleAnalysis of individual variables in MetCLILL2 proficiency in MetCLIL
L1-induced variationComparing the metaphor production of lecturers and learnersConclusionReferences8: Exemplary study of speech metaphors: Corpus exploration of a target domainCorpus studies of speech metaphorsIntroduction
Background
The importance of speech in the seminars: a keyword analysisLiteral vs metaphorical speechSpeech or pitch
Literal speech
Metaphorical speech
An analysis of source domains for speech metaphorsMotion
Visual metaphors
Construction
Transfer
Storytelling
ConclusionFinal recapitulation and suggestions for further researchReferencesAppendicesIndex
About the author
Rafael Alejo-González is Associate Professor of English at the University of Extremadura, Spain.
