Alice deignan metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines, wherever researchers are concerned with how speakers and writers package and process messages. Professor alice deignan school of education university. Corpusbased research into metaphor and its application to language reference materials. Corpus linguistic data and conceptual metaphor theory. Corpus linguistics is a newcomer to the field, but its influence is already being felt. The routledge handbook of metaphor and language taylor. This title acts as a onevolume resource, providing an introduction to every aspect of corpus linguistics as it is being used at the moment. Conceptual metaphor theory was developed in cognitive linguistics and popularized with lakoff and johnsons book metaphors we live by in 1980 deignan, 2016. Metaphor and corpus linguistics advances in consciousness.
The items were nose, mouth, eye and heart, and their italian translation. The book also includes corpus linguistic studies of different aspects of metaphor, which investigate its linguistic and semantic properties and relate them to current. An introduction to corpus based language analysis corpus callossum corpus linguistics an introduction to corpus linguistics uam corpus tool download introduction to corpus linguistics british national corpus download corpus linguistics and the description of english data driven learning corpus writ habeas corpus. Corpus linguistics is a newcomer to the field, but its. Cognitive metaphor theory would label the overall metaphor as accepting responsibility is a journey, but, as in the examples discussed above, the discourse reality is more precise and specific than this, and, when we look at the use of walk away from across the conciliation conversations, and then across the corpus, we again find restrictions. Nine issues in metaphor theory and analysis1 deignan, alice. Metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines, wherever researchers are concerned with how speakers and writers package and process messages. Given our research questions, we took the second of these approaches, and restricted our. Professor alice deignan school of education university of. Alan cienki department of language and communication, vrije.
Within this framework, certain metaphorical expressions found in sports discourse are analyzed as expressions of two conceptual metaphors. Head of school and professor of applied linguistics areas of expertise. Hanks, 2004, this volume or relevant to the research question stefanowitsch 2005. Contemporary corpus linguistics, paul baker, linguistics and. Deignan and others published corpus linguistics and metaphor find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate.
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. Alice deignan author of metaphor and corpus linguistics. Discover book depositorys huge selection of alice deignan books online. Metaphor is a figure of speech based on similarity. She is the author of collins cobuild guides to english 7. Alice deignan is a senior lecturer at the school of education, university of leeds. Corpus based approaches to metaphor and metonymy 3 currences of the items in question are retrieved, cf. Metaphor and corpus linguistics advances in consciousness research simon c.
A corpusdriven investigation into metaphor would not include a set of predefined. Jul 21, 2019 alice deignan metaphor and corpus linguistics pdf there is a growing body of research at the interface between metaphor and. Pdf in this paper, i look at four different aspects of metaphor research from a corpus linguistic. Deignan, this volume, hilpert, this volume, koller, this volume, or it can be limited to particular contexts that are considered to be promising cf. A corpus study of metaphors and metonyms in english and italian. George lakoff and mark johnson as cited in wales, 2014 argued that the metaphoric impulse is basic to human thought processes. Namely, conceptual metaphor theory johnson 1980, 1999. Metaphor and corpus linguistics by alice deignan waterstones. Emergence of metaphor in discourse applied linguistics.
Nov 03, 2016 the routledge handbook of metaphor and language provides a comprehensive overview of stateoftheart interdisciplinary research on metaphor and language. This has led to an increase in research acknowledging varying levels of. There is a growing body of research at the interface between metaphor and corpus linguistics. Featuring 35 chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume takes a broad view of the field of metaphor and language, and brings together diverse and distinct theoretical and applied perspectives to cover six key areas. 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. Corpus linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses about language use. An introduction to corpus based language analysis an introduction to corpus linguistics introduction to corpus linguistics corpus linguistics corpus linguistics and the description of english alice deignan metaphor and corpus linguistics introduction to linguistics an introduction to linguistics.
Metaphor and corpus linguistics by deignan, alice ebook. Metaphor and corpus linguistics by alice deignan, 9789027238986, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Metaphor in language and culture part iv the cambridge. Kovecses 2002 as extended into i corpus and contextual analysis of metaphor charterisblack 2004.
A corpusbased study of some linguistic features of metaphor. From linguistic to conceptual metaphors white rose. 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. Alice deignan metaphors and translations of science for.
The book also includes corpus linguistic studies of different aspects of metaphor, which investigate its linguistic and semantic properties and. Nine issues in metaphor theory and analysis patrick hanks. The most comprehensive overviews of corpus linguistic methods in research on metonymy and metaphor are to be found in stefanowitsch and gries 2006 and deignan 2005. Pdf the emergence of metaphor in discourse alice deignan. Examinations of corpus data usually seek to uncover general patterns in the meaning, semantic. 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. Kimmel notes that the metaphor analyst may try to capture all metaphors in their corpus, but that, more usually, a restriction to one or a small set of domains makes sense because the researcher wants to maintain a thematic focus kimmel 2012. 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.
Metaphor harpercollins, london, 1995 and her research focuses on using corpora to investigate nonliteral language use. A criticism that thus can be levelled at studies such as deignan 1999a, b, as revealing as they are, is that they do not exploit the corpus not nearly to its full potential. From linguistic to conceptual metaphors white rose research. This is seen in deignans analyses of metaphorically used words, which typically work with either every citation of a word or a large random sample and attempt to.
Jan 14, 2020 alice deignan, metaphor and corpus linguistics. The analysis of these metaphorical expressions combines the methodology of cognitive linguistics with corpus. This post is about a recently finished research project on climate change and education that applies metaphor analysis in order to gain more insight about the ways in which school students in england understand climate change. Roman law corpus juris civilis corpus juris secundum practical corpus linguistics. Alan cienki department of language and communication, vrije universiteit amsterdam. A corpus based study of some linguistic features of metaphor. Alice deignan is the author of metaphor and corpus linguistics 4. Corpus linguistics and metaphor chapter 16 the cambridge.
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