This volume explores the synergy between historical and cognitive linguistics, demonstrating how the two can jointly shed light on patterns of language change. Focusing on figurative language, particularly metaphor and metonymy, it features a range of case studies that zoom in on the emergence and… read more
This chapter discusses the possibility of using The Oxford English Dictionary to identify metaphors in historical corpus data, especially to analyze abstract concepts in Early or Late Modern English. The discussion centers around two corpus examples which are analyzed and discussed in detail.… read more
In this chapter I relate the metonymic, embodied basis of emotion metaphors, illustrated, for example, by Zoltán Kövecses’s research in the 1980s and 1990s, to the concept of affect as discussed in a tradition founded by Silvan Tomkins. I focus on Tomkins’s claim that the responses of the body to… read more
Diachronic corpus linguistics can help us trace changes in the usage of metaphors within various stages of one and the same language. This article deals with conceptual metaphors occurring with the verb and noun love in Early Modern and Present-Day English. The aim is to describe the seeming… read more
This paper analyses the occurrences of the verb and noun respect in the EModE period of the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts, and in the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler, with respect to their conceptual metonymies and metaphors, and to which other words they combine with. The paper… read more
