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Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age
Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language
This book describes methods, risks, and challenges involved in the construction of metaphor and metonymy digital repositories. The first part of this volume showcases established and new projects around the world in which metaphors and metonymies are harvested and classified. The second part provides a series of cognitive linguistic studies focused on highlighting and discussing theoretical and methodological risks and challenges involved in building these digital resources. The volume is a result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between cognitive linguists, psychologists, and computational scientists supporting an overarching idea that metaphor and metonymy play a central role in human cognition, and that they are deeply entrenched in recurring patterns of bodily experience. Throughout the volume, a variety of methods are proposed to collect and analyze both conceptual metaphors and metonymies and their linguistic and visual expressions.
[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 8] 2019. x, 263 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 22 July 2019
Published online on 22 July 2019
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements | pp. ix–x
- Fantastic metaphors and where to find themMarianna Bolognesi and Kristina Despot | pp. 1–20
- Part I. New methods and digital resources for mining metaphor and metonymy in thought, language, and images
- Chapter 1. MetaNet: Automated metaphor identification across languages and domainsEve Sweetser, Oana David and Elise Stickles | pp. 21–48
- Chapter 2. The tripartite typology and the Córdoba Metonymy DatabaseAntonio Barcelona | pp. 49–74
- Chapter 3. Metaphor in the age of mechanical production: (Or: Turning potential metaphors into deliberate metaphors)Tony Veale | pp. 75–98
- Chapter 4. VisMet and the crowd: What social tagging reveals about visual metaphorsMarianna Bolognesi, Benjamin Timmermans and Lora Aroyo | pp. 99–122
- Chapter 5. MetaNet.HR: Croatian metaphor repositoryKristina Despot, Mirjana Tonković, Mario Essert, Mario Brdar, Benedikt Perak, Ana Ostroški Anić, Bruno Nahod and Ivan Pandžić | pp. 123–146
- Part II. Reflecting on the risks and challenges involved in building and using repositories of figurative language
- Chapter 6. The lexical vs. corpus-based method in the study of metaphorsZoltán Kövecses, Laura Ambrus, Dániel Hegedűs, Ren Imai and Anna Sobczak | pp. 147–174
- Chapter 7. Figurative reasoning in hedged performativesKlaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg | pp. 175–198
- Chapter 8. Mereology in the fleshSimon Devylder | pp. 199–224
- Chapter 9. Metaphor repositories and cross-linguistic comparison: Ontological eggs and chickensMario Brdar, Rita Brdar-Szabó and Benedikt Perak | pp. 225–252
- Notes on contributors | pp. 253–254
- Metonymy and metaphor index
- Author index
- Subject index
“This volume will be invaluable for anyone looking to build or use an electronic repository for research on figurative language, particularly metaphor. [...] An excellent fit for anyone looking for a map of the pitfalls of electronic repositories of figurative language.”
Christopher R. Karzmark, University of California, Santa Cruz, in Metaphor and the Social World 12:1 (2022)
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