Michael Kimmel
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael Kimmel is involved.
Articles
2012 Optimizing the analysis of metaphor in discourse: How to make the most of qualitative software and find a good research design Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10:1, pp. 1–48 | Article
This article presents a software-based methodology for studying metaphor in discourse, mainly within the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). Despite a welcome recent swing towards methodological reflexivity, a detailed explication of the pros and cons of different procedures is still in… read more
2008 Metaphors and software-assisted cognitive stylistics Directions in Empirical Literary Studies: In honor of Willie van Peer, Zyngier, Sonia, Marisa Bortolussi, Anna Chesnokova and Jan Auracher (eds.), pp. 193–210 | Article
This paper reports on an ongoing project on literary metaphor that applies analytical tools from cognitive linguistics (cl) to six English novellas and presents a case study. The project focuses on complex tropes, metaphors, coherence and cohesion in text units as well as text cues that involve the… read more