The linguistic data used by metaphor researchers has largely been either intuitively derived or taken from small handsorted collections of texts. The authors explore a diverse range of communities from chronic pain sufferers to nursery staff to present a detailed framework for the analysis of figurative language. From linguistic to conceptual metaphors white rose research. Metaphor and corpus linguistics by alice deignan, 9781588116475, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines, wherever researchers are concerned with how speakers and writers package and process messages. Nadja nesselhauf, october 2005 last updated september 2011. There is a growing body of research at the interface between metaphor and corpus linguistics. Head of school and professor of applied linguistics. Alice deignan converging evidence in language and communication research, 6.
Corpus linguistic research techniques can yield facts about language. Lakoff analysed linguistic metaphors to construct conceptual metaphors through which. She is the author of collins cobuild guides to english 7. Recent studies of metaphor have stressed both its importance to thinking and its pervasiveness in language. Pdf linguistic metaphors and collocation in nonliterary. The cambridge handbook of metaphor and thought edited by raymond w. Head of school and professor of applied linguistics areas of expertise. In this response, i argue that the ideal way of determining basic meaning is by analysis of concordance citations sampled from an appropriate corpus. Although corpus can refer to any systematic text collection, it is commonly used in a narrower sense today, and is often only used to refer to systematic text collections that have been computerized. I was a huge fan of conceptual metaphor theory so i was surprised to find that this rigorous analysis turned up patterns in the corpus that were not predicted by the theory, and needed other explanations. I later wrote up my findings as a book metaphor and corpus linguistics benjamins 2005. Introduction and problem statement following the publication of lakoff and johnsons 1980 influential metaphors we live by it. For instance, deignan 2005 has conducted a number of corpus studies exploring how. Pdf in this paper, i look at four different aspects of metaphor research from a corpus linguistic perspective, namely.
These words, in fact, often carry a distinctly different semantic prosody in a general corpus or in other specialized corpora a point that some researchers, flowerdew 1997 for example, sometimes fail to make explicitly clear. The number and diversity of corpora being compiled are great and corpora as used in many projects. The book also includes corpus linguistic studies of different aspects of metaphor, which investigate its linguistic and semantic properties and relate them to current. Undoubtedly, these efforts in the field of corpus linguistics led to the advance of different fields of english linguistics. The bank of english boe, developed at the university of birmingham, is the best known example of a monitor corpus. As yet, there have been few attempts to systematically examine metaphorical linguistic expressions in nonliterary corpus data. Corpus linguistics and metaphor chapter 16 the cambridge. The analysis of corpus data can reveal features of language use not available to unaided intuition. Figurative language, genre and register brings together discourse analysis and corpus linguistics in a cuttingedge study of figurative language in spoken and written discourse.
Hans lindquist corpus linguistics and the description of english. Corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics have a great deal in common in terms of their basic approaches to language enquiry, particularly in terms of providing representative samples from a population and analysing quantitative information in order to study variation or differences between populations. A monitor corpus is a dataset which grows in size over time and contains a variety of materials. Corpus linguistics is, however, not the same as mainly obtaining language data through the use of computers. From linguistic to conceptual metaphors alice deignan. Metaphors in cognitive linguistics attila imre the first part of the article offers an historical overview of metaphors, starting from aristotle and the classical definition of metaphor. 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. Alice deignan is a senior lecturer at the school of education, university of leeds. Professor alice deignan school of education university. 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. Metaphor and corpus linguistics by alice deignan alibris. The items were nose, mouth, eye and heart, and their italian translation. In this paper i discuss contributions that corpus linguistics can make to the study of meaning in discourse. 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 and metaphor chapter 16 cambridge core. This is demonstrated using a word sample of the concordance for say and its inflections, taken from the british national corpus. Skorczynska and deignan 2006 for example, compare the use of metaphor in two specially. Corpus linguistic data and conceptual metaphor theory. Metaphor and corpus linguistics converging evidence in language and communication research. Alice deignan is the author of metaphor and corpus linguistics 4. The interest for computerised corpora and corpus linguistics is growing. Recent research from a corpus linguistic perspective has begun to show, however, that such a dichotomist stance to metaphor does not bear scrutiny. A dead metaphor is a figure of speech which has lost the original imagery of its meaning due to extensive, repetitive, and popular usage.
Deignan and others published corpus linguistics and metaphor find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Assuming the general framework of cultural linguistics and corpus based and discoursebased approaches to conceptual metaphor, the study highlights how metaphor can be a powerful conceptual and. Deignan alice deignan metaphor and corpus linguistics. A corpus study of metaphors and metonyms in english and.
Jul 10, 2015 macarthur questions the use of the macmillan dictionary in metaphor identification. A number of approaches to and exploitations of metaphor, including conceptual metaphor theory and cognitive approaches more generally, text and spoken discourse analysis, and cda, are discussed, explored and critiqued using corpus data. The relative proportions of different types of materials may vary over time. According to hughes 1966 a metaphor is commonly defined as an implied comparison between two things unlike in most respects but alike in the respect in which they are compared. 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. Metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines. A corpusbased study of some linguistic features of metaphor.
A number of researchers now claim that metaphorical transfer. Alice deignan author of metaphor and corpus linguistics. Representativeness, balance and sampling monolingual multilingual \the rosetta stone is a fragment of an ancient egyptian granodiorite stele, the engraved text of which provided the key to the modern understanding of egyptian hieroglyphs. Corpus linguistics and the study of meaning in discourse. 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. 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. English corpus linguistics versus arabic corpus linguistics there are several english corpora that have been created for the purpose of the empirical study of english linguistics since the 1960s. Oct 06, 2011 corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale the computeraided analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. Nine issues in metaphor theory and analysis1 deignan, alice. The article takes account of theories and methodologies within structuralism and poststucturalism, which have opened new alleys towards the analysis and interpretation of meanings in linguistics and in a range of related disciplines, in order to provide a theoretical. At the detailed level of collocation and lexical grammar, corpus data show features that are apparently specific. Corpus linguistics is the study and analysis of data obtained from a corpus. Libros en idiomas extranjeros saltar al contenido principal. Deignan, ah 0000000291569168 2016 from linguistic to conceptual metaphors.
A corpus study of metaphors and metonyms in english and italian alice deignana, liz potterb aschool of education, university of leeds, leeds ls2 9jt, uk buniversity of birmingham, birmingham, uk received 5 june 2000. Figurative language, genre and register cambridge applied. Language and literature the contraction of meaning. A corpus based study of some linguistic features of metaphor. More and more universities offer courses in corpus linguistics and or use corpora in their teaching and research. Computers are useful, and sometimes indispensable, tools used in this process. The main task of the corpus linguist is not to find the data but to analyze it. Metaphor and corpus linguistics by alice deignan, 9789027238924, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Using corpus methods to analyse metaphor in discourse.
A corpus study of metaphors and metonyms in english and italian. Metaphors and translations of science for school students. Corpus approaches to conceptual metaphor and idioms in world englishes convenors. Since the publication of lakoff and johnsons seminal work on conceptual metaphor, metaphors we live by 1980, there has been a rapid increase of interest in metaphor studies, principally in the fields of psychology and cognitive science. Sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics by paul baker, 2010. Steen was the first writer in the cognitive and applied linguistics tradition to tackle the difficult question of demonstrating rigorously the. Metaphor and corpus linguistics converging evidence in. In recent research, practitioners of corpus linguistics have focused on the different types of contributions that datadriven corpus based approaches have made to metaphor theory and analysis.
Current categorization of metaphoric language is unable to address the fuzzy, ambiguous nature of metaphoricity with any definitive set of linguistic characteristics deignan, 2005. Nine issues in metaphor theory and analysis semantic scholar. 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. The main task of the corpus linguist is not to find the data but to analyse it. Because dead metaphors have a conventional meaning that differs from the original, they can be understood without knowing their earlier connotation. Edited by graham low, zazie todd, alice deignan and lynne cameron human cognitive processing, 26 2010. The study particularly examines how l2 learners of chinese and english express vertical. Linguistic and figurative patterns in natural language data alice deignan university of leeds, uk abstract. The book also includes corpus linguistic studies of different aspects of metaphor. Alan cienki department of language and communication, vrije universiteit amsterdam. The example of germanbasque as language pair david lindemann upvvehu university of the basque country, tolosa hiribidea, 70, 20018 donostia, spain abstract lexicography over the last decades has incorporated corpus linguistics methods. Metaphor and corpus linguistics by deignan, alice ebook. Alice deignan metaphor and corpus linguistics pdf there is a growing body of research at the interface between metaphor and. Alice deignan metaphors and translations of science.
Chomskys contribution to cognitive psychology is also mentioned together with roschs and kay and mcdaniels research concerning categorization. Lily iwen su national taiwan university recent studies on metaphor have proved it to be an important language. Metaphor harpercollins, london, 1995 and her research focuses on using corpora to investigate nonliteral language use. Thus, the current study investigates metaphor in learner language in light of cmt via a corpus based approach, i. Metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines, wherever. Alice deignan 2005 identified metaphor as word or expression that is used to talk. Corpus approaches to conceptual metaphor and idioms in world. This textbook outlines the basic methods of corpus linguistics, explains how the discipline of corpus linguistics developed and surveys the major approaches to the use of. 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. Metaphor and corpus linguistics by alice deignan waterstones. Corpus linguistics and linguistic theory 42, 14175 deignan, alice.
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