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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. 247–265

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Chapter 12
Linguistic metaphor identification in Chinese

 | , , CanadaUniversity of Victoria, Canada
 | , , USAPennsylvania State University, USA
 | , , TaiwanNational Taipei University of Business, Taiwan
 | , , TaiwanNational Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
 | , , USAUniversity of Cincinnati, USA
Published online: 28 November 2019
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Article outline
  • 12.1Introduction
  • 12.2Operationalisation issues
    • 12.2.1Data of this study
    • 12.2.2Choice of lexical tools
    • 12.2.3Use of lexical tools
      • 12.2.3.1Sense descriptions
      • 12.2.3.2Part-of-speech information
  • 12.3Linguistic issues
    • 12.3.1Demarcation of lexical units in Chinese texts
    • 12.3.2Chinese-specific types of lexical units
      • 12.3.2.1Verb-object compounds
      • 12.3.2.2Resultative verb compounds
      • 12.3.2.3Reduplications
      • 12.3.2.4Proper names, idioms and fixed expressions
  • 12.4Annotation categories
    • 12.4.1Indirect metaphor
    • 12.4.2Direct metaphor
    • 12.4.3Implicit metaphor
    • 12.4.4Borderline cases
  • 12.5Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
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