The function of metaphor: Deloping a corpus-based perspective

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 161-198

  Stefanowitsch, Anatol ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive linguistics; Collostructional analysis; Corpus linguistics; Distinctive collocates; Function of; Metaphor

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248699410     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.10.2.03ste     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Aristotle (1959). The Art of Rhetoric. (Transl. J. H. Freese). London: Dutton
2. Barnbrook, G. (1996). Language and computers. A practical introduction to the computer analysis of language. Edinburgh: Edinburg University Press
3. Biebuyck, B., Dirven, R., & Ries, J. (Eds.). (1998). Faith and Fiction. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang
4. Cameron, L. J. (2003). Metaphor in educational discourse. London and New York: Continuum
5. Church, K. W., & Hanks, P. (1990). Word association norms, mutual information, and lexicography. Computational Linguistics, 16(1), 22-9
6. Church, K. W., Gale, W., Hanks, P., & Hindle, D. (1991). Using statistics in lexical analysis. In U. Zernik (Ed.), Lexical acquisition: Exploiting on-line resources to build up a lexicon (pp. 115-64). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
7. Collins Cobuild English Dictionary (1995). London: Harper Collins
8. Deignan, A. (1995). Cobuild Guides to English 7: Metaphor. London: Harper Collins
9. Deignan, A. (1999). Corpus-based research into metaphor. In L. J. Cameron & G. Low (Eds.), Researching and applying metaphor (pp. 177-199). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
10. Dunning, T. (1993). Accurate methods for the statistics of surprise and coincidence. Computational Linguistics, 19 (1), 61-74
11. Fillmore, C. J. (1988). The mechanisms of 'Construction Grammar'. In S. Axmaker, A. Jaisser, & H. Singmaster (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (pp. 35-55). University of California, Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society
12. Garner W. R. (1974). The processing of information and structure. Potomac MD: Erlbaum
13. Gibbs, R. W. (1994). The poetics of mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
14. Gibbs, R. W., & Steen, G. J. (Eds.). (1999). Metaphor in cognitive linguistics. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins
15. Gilquin, G. (2004). The V slot in causative constructions: A collostructional analysis. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Construction Grammar, July 7-10, 2004. University of Provence, France
16. Goldberg, A. E. (1995). Constructions. A construction grammar approach to argument structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
17. Grady, J. (1999). A typology of motivation for conceptual metaphor: Correlation vs. resemblance. In R. W. Gibbs & G. J. Steen (Eds.), Metaphor in cognitive linguistics (pp. 79-100). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins
18. Grady, J. E. (1997). THEORIES ARE BUILDINGS revisited. Cognitive Linguistics, 8 (4), 267-290
19. Gries, S. T. (2003). Testing the sub-test: A collocational-overlap analysis of English -ic and -ical adjectives. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 8 (1), 31-61
20. Gries, S. T, & Stefanowitsch, A. (2004a). Extending collostructional analysis: A corpus-based perspective on 'alternations'. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 9 (1), 97-129
21. Gries, S. T., & Stefanowitsch, A. (2004b). Co-varying collexemes in the into-causative. In M. Achard & S. Kemmer (Eds.), Language, culture, and mind (pp. 225-236). Stanford: CSLI
22. Hopper, P., & Traugott, E. C. (2003). Grammaticalization (2nd edition.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
23. Jäkel, O. (1995). The metaphorical conception of mind: 'Mental activity is manipulation'. In J. R. Taylor & R. E. MacLaury (Eds.), Language and the cognitive construal of the world (pp. 197-229). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter
24. Jäkel, O. (1997). Metaphern in abstrakten Diskursdomänen. Eine kognitiv-linguistische Untersuchung anhand der Bereiche Geistestätigkeit, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang
25. Jäkel, O. (1999). Kant, Blumenberg, Weinrich: Some forgotten contributions to the cognitive theory of metaphor. In R. W. Gibbs & G. J. Steen (Eds.), Metaphor in cognitive linguistics (pp. 9-27). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins
26. Johnson, M. (1987). The body in the mind. The bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press
27. Kay, P., & Fillmore, C. J. (1999). Grammatical constructions and linguistic generalizations: The What's X Doing Y construction. Language, 75 (1), 1-33
28. Kennedy, G. (1991). Between and through: The company they keep and the functions they serve. In K. Aijmer & B. Altenberg (Eds.), English corpus linguistics (pp. 95-110). London: Longman
29. Kövecses, Z. (1986). Metaphors of anger, pride, and love. A lexical approach to the structure of concepts. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins
30. Kövecses, Z. (2002). Metaphor. Apractical introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press
31. Lakoff, G. (1987). Women, fire, and dangerous things. What categories reveal about the mind. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press
32. Lakoff, G. (1993). The contemporary theory of metaphor. In A. Ortony (Ed.), Metaphor and thought. Second edition (pp. 202-251). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
33. Lakoff, G. (1996). Moral politics. What conservatives know that liberals don't. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press
34. Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors we live by. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press
35. Langacker, R. W. (1987). Foundations of cognitive grammar. Vol. 1. Theoretical prerequisites. Stanford: Stanford University Press
36. Martin, J. (to appear). A corpus-based analysis of context effects on metaphor comprehension. In A. Stefanowitsch & S.T. Gries (Eds.), Corpus-based approaches to metaphor. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter
37. Niemeier, S. (2000). Straight from the heart - metonymic and metaphorical explorations. In A. Barcelona (Ed.), Metaphor and metonymy at the crossroads. A cognitive perspective (pp. 195-213). Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter
38. Partington, A. (1998). Patterns and meanings. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins
39. Partington, A. (2003). The linguistics of political argument. The spin-doctor and the wolf-pack at the White House. London: Routledge
40. Pedersen, T. (1996). Fishing for exactness. Proceedings of the SCSUG 96 in Austin, TX, 188-200
41. Pedersen, T., Banerjee, S., & Purandare, A. (2003). Ngram statistics package 0.53. http://www.d.umn.edu/tpederse/code.html (last access: 20 January 2003)
42. Radden, G. (1997). Time is space. In B. Smieja & M. Tasch (Eds.), Human contact through language and linguistics (pp. 147-166). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang
43. Richards, I. A. (1936). The philosophy of rhetoric. London: Oxford University Press
44. Semino, E., & Steen, G. J. (2001). A method for annotating metaphors in corpora. In J. Barnden, M. Lee, & K. Markert (Eds.), Proceedings of the workshop on corpus-based and processing apporaches to figurative language (pp. 59-66). Lancaster: University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language
45. Semino, E., Short, M., & Culpeper, J. (1997). Using a computer corpus to test a model of speech and thought presentation. Poetics, 25 (1), 17-43
46. Sinclair, J. (1991). Corpus, concordance, collocation. Oxford: Oxford University Press
47. Smith, A. (1776). The wealth of nations. Repr. 1961. London: Methuen
48. Stefanowitsch, A., & Gries, S. T. (2003). Collostructions: Investigating the interaction of words and constructions. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 8 (2), 209-243
49. Stefanowitsch, A., & Gries, S. T. (2005). Covarying Collexemes. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 1 (1), 1-46
50. Stefanowitsch, A., & Gries, S. T. (Eds), (to appear). Corpus-based approaches to metaphor. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter
51. Stefanowitsch, A. (2004). HAPPINESS in English and German. In M. Achard & S. Kemmer (Eds.), Language, Mind, and Culture (pp. 137-149). Stanford: CSLI
52. Stefanowitsch, A. (to appear a). Words and their metaphors: A corpus-based approach. In A. Stefanowitsch & S. T. Gries (Eds), Corpus-based approaches to metaphor. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter
53. Sweetser, E. (1990). From etymology to pragmatics. Metaphorical and cultural aspects of semantic structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
54. The New Encyclopædia Britannica. Micropædia, Vol. 8. (1989). 15th Edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
55. Wertheimer, M. (1938). Laws of Organization in Perceptual Forms. In W. Ellis (Ed.), A source book of Gestalt psychology (pp. 71-88). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul
56. Winter, S. (1989). Transcendental nonsense, metaphoric reasoning and the cognitive stakes for law, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 137, 1105-1237