Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy /

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Deals with the issue of how corpus data relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have typically investigated with respect to conceptual mappings. This volume investigates a range of issues - the coherence and function of particular metaphorical models, the interaction of form and meaning, th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Stefanowitsch, Anatol, 1970-, Gries, Stefan Thomas, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2006.
Subjects:
Metaphor > Data processing.
Metonyms > Data processing.
Cognitive grammar > Data processing.
Métaphore > Informatique.
Métonymie > Informatique.
Grammaire cognitive > Informatique.
Metaphor > Data processing
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Table of contents; Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy; Metaphoricity is gradable*; A corpus-based study of metaphors for speech activity in British English; Words and their metaphors: A corpus-based approach; The grammar of linguistic metaphors; Keeping an eye on the data: Metonymies and their patterns*; Metonymic proper names: A corpus-based account; On groutnolls and nog-heads: A case study of the interaction between culture and cognition in intelligence metaphors; Sense and sensibility: Rational thought versus emotion in metaphorical language*

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