Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy / edited by Anatol Stefanowitsch, Stefan Th. Gries.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; ; 171.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, ©2006.Description: 1 online resource (319 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 3110186047
  • 9783110186048
  • 9783110199895
  • 3110199890
  • 1282194941
  • 9781282194946
  • 9786612194948
  • 6612194944
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy.DDC classification:
  • 808.00285 22
LOC classification:
  • P301.5.M48 C677 2006eb
Other classification:
  • ET 425
Online resources:
Contents:
Table of contents; Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy; Metaphoricity is gradable*; A corpus-based study of metaphors for speech activity in British English; Words and their metaphors: A corpus-based approach; The grammar of linguistic metaphors; Keeping an eye on the data: Metonymies and their patterns*; Metonymic proper names: A corpus-based account; On groutnolls and nog-heads: A case study of the interaction between culture and cognition in intelligence metaphors; Sense and sensibility: Rational thought versus emotion in metaphorical language*
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: Deals with the issue of how corpus data relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have typically investigated with respect to conceptual mappings. This volume investigates a range of issues - the coherence and function of particular metaphorical models, the interaction of form and meaning, the priming of metaphors, and more.
Item type:
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode
Electronic-Books Electronic-Books OPJGU Sonepat- Campus E-Books EBSCO Available

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Print version record.

Table of contents; Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy; Metaphoricity is gradable*; A corpus-based study of metaphors for speech activity in British English; Words and their metaphors: A corpus-based approach; The grammar of linguistic metaphors; Keeping an eye on the data: Metonymies and their patterns*; Metonymic proper names: A corpus-based account; On groutnolls and nog-heads: A case study of the interaction between culture and cognition in intelligence metaphors; Sense and sensibility: Rational thought versus emotion in metaphorical language*

Deals with the issue of how corpus data relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have typically investigated with respect to conceptual mappings. This volume investigates a range of issues - the coherence and function of particular metaphorical models, the interaction of form and meaning, the priming of metaphors, and more.

Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. MiAaHDL

http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL

English.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat-Narela Road, Sonepat, Haryana (India) - 131001

Send your feedback to glus@jgu.edu.in

Hosted, Implemented & Customized by: BestBookBuddies   |   Maintained by: Global Library