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Article published In: Journal of Uralic Linguistics
Vol. 3:1 (2024) ► pp.55–86

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A case study of comparative metaphor analysis in Finnish and Hungarian news texts

A MIPVU-based protocol for metaphor identification in languages with rich morphology

 | Eötvös Loránd UniversityBudapest, Hungary
 | Eötvös Loránd UniversityBudapest, Hungary
Published online: 14 May 2024
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jul.00026.baj
Abstract
Despite remarkable previous results of cognitive linguistic analysis of metaphorization in Finnish and Hungarian even in a cross-linguistic context (Huumo, Tuomas. 2019. Why Monday is not in front of Tuesday: On the uses of English and Finnish front adpositions in sequence metaphors of time. Linguistics 57:3. 607–652. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar; Máthé, Zsuzsa. 2022. Space, time and transience. Argumentum 181. 273–286. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar), a systematic comparative study of the patterns of linguistic metaphors in these two languages is still to be carried out. The aim of this paper is to fill this research gap by proposing a MIPVU-inspired protocol for metaphor identification in languages with rich morphology and presenting the preliminary results of a small-scale corpus analysis. The study is organized around the following questions: (i) How can we adapt and extend the original MIPVU method for agglutinative Uralic languages like Hungarian and Finnish? (ii) How can we implement the adapted method in a collaborative parallel annotation process of sampled news texts? (iii) What are the differences in metaphorical patterns between Finnish and Hungarian? The paper details the adapted protocol of MIPVU for the Hungarian language (Simon, Gábor, Tímea Bajzát, Júlia Ballagó, Zsuzsanna Havasi, Emese K. Molnár & Eszter Szlávich. 2023. When MIPVU goes to No Man’s Land: A new language resource for hybrid, morpheme-based metaphor identification in Hungarian. Language Resources & Evaluation (2023). Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar), and how it can be applied to Finnish, demonstrating its applicability in a research corpus. Our findings demonstrate a relatively similar metaphorization in Hungarian and Finnish with slight differences in terms of the frequency of metaphorical expressions, their semantic relations, and the complexity of argument structure constructions.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Metaphor identification in Finnish and Hungarian – beyond the original MIPVU protocol
    • 2.1Metaphorization below the word level: Language-specific improvements
    • 2.2Metaphorization above the word level: Additional innovations
    • 2.3A brief manual for the MetaID procedure
  • 3.The FiHuCoMet corpus: Infrastructure and research material
  • 4.Preliminary results
  • 5.Problematic cases
  • 6.Conclusion and future perspectives
  • Notes
  • References
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