In:Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world
Edited by Susan Nacey, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 22] 2019
► pp. 1–21
Chapter 1MIPVU in multiple languages
Published online: 28 November 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.22.01nac
https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.22.01nac
Article outline
- 1.1Why MIPVU in multiple languages?
- 1.2Methods for linguistic metaphor identification
- 1.2.1The development of MIP and MIPVU
- 1.2.2MIP vs. MIPVU
- 1.2.3Other methods for linguistic metaphor identification
- 1.3Perspectives on the past, present and future of linguistic metaphor identification: An interview with Gerard Steen
- 1.4How to read this volume
- 1.5MIPVU in multiple languages
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