Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics (Advances in Consciousness Research)

Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Table of contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Metaphors in language and thought......Page 12
A “decorative” viewof metaphor......Page 13
Conceptual Metaphor Theory......Page 15
Corpus linguistics......Page 16
Summary......Page 20
I. Current models of metaphor and metonymy......Page 22
Main tenets of Conceptual Metaphor Theory......Page 24
Some implications of Conceptual Metaphor Theory for language description......Page 35
Exploring linguistic metaphors as evidence for Conceptual Metaphor Theory......Page 38
Summary and conclusion......Page 43
Introduction......Page 44
Types of linguistic metaphor......Page 45
Degrees of metaphoricity: Two models......Page 47
Degrees of metaphoricity: A corpus-based classification......Page 50
Metaphor and grammar......Page 58
Metaphor and “empty” words......Page 60
Conclusion......Page 63
Metonymy......Page 64
Combinations of metaphor and metonymy......Page 70
A cline from metaphor to metonymy......Page 74
Conclusion......Page 80
II. Current research into metaphor......Page 84
Corpora and language analysis......Page 86
Issues in corpus research......Page 96
Using corpora to research metaphor......Page 103
Summary......Page 112
Note......Page 113
Questions......Page 114
Research methodologies......Page 120
Corpus perspectives on cognitive and psycholinguistic research methodology......Page 125
Conclusion......Page 133
Introduction......Page 134
Methodology......Page 135
The ideological use of metaphor......Page 136
Metaphor, meaning and the developing discourse......Page 142
A corpus perspective on discourse studies......Page 146
Conclusion......Page 152
III. The examination of corpus data......Page 154
Approaches to grammar and metaphor......Page 156
Metaphor and part of speech......Page 158
Detailed grammatical patterning......Page 168
Implications......Page 173
Conclusion......Page 177
Introduction......Page 180
Metaphorical mapping......Page 181
Corpus investigations: Plants......Page 185
Corpus investigations: Light and dark......Page 194
Summary and conclusion......Page 202
Note......Page 203
Introduction......Page 204
Collocation and corpus data......Page 205
Idiom......Page 206
Collocation and meaning......Page 208
Metaphorical mapping of collocates in the corpus......Page 209
Discussion......Page 221
Conclusion......Page 224
Language and metaphor......Page 226
Corpus linguistics and cognitive metaphor theory......Page 233
Further work......Page 235
References......Page 236
Index......Page 244
The series Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research......Page 247