[Corpora-List] looking for spacial metaphors

[Eric Atwell]

Ilze,

a starting point could be to collect corpus evidence of the prepositions
used with "internet" (and similar terms) in a range of languages. For
this, you could use Serge Sharoff's Querying Internet Corpora website
http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/internet.html

  - you can query large web-corpora of 13 languages, looking for
    collocates with a given PoS-tag. For example, prepositions
with "internet" for English:

Collocation 	Joint 	Freq1 	Freq2 	LL score 	Concordance
via internet 	10 	16738 		8.77 	Examples
with internet 	84 	1004574 		8.74 	Examples
for internet 	104 	1597989 		4.97 	Examples
about internet 	30 	350787 		3.28 	Examples
on internet 	68 	1109319 		2.51 	Examples
of internet 	222 	4658360 		1.34 	Examples
against internet 	5 	67629 		0.37 	Examples
through internet 	8 	130426 		0.29 	Examples
over internet 	9 	157134 		0.23 	Examples
without internet 	4 	80007 		0.04 	Examples

compared to, for example, Italian:

su internet 	947 	207279 		1776.05 	Examples
via internet 	240 	83931 		387.79 	Examples
attraverso internet 	126 	43705 		203.57 	Examples
ad internet 	206 	309169 		187.39 	Examples
tramite internet 	85 	11838 		175.70 	Examples
in internet 	383 	1834798 		154.12 	Examples
da internet 	183 	803566 		79.17 	Examples
di internet 	388 	4773196 		33.50 	Examples
a internet 	115 	1856391 		3.46 	Examples
contro internet 	10 	85763 		1.83 	Examples
con internet 	53 	890519 		1.27 	Examples
per internet 	78 	1533484 		0.53 	Examples


It's up to you to identify the interesting conclusions!

good luck,

Eric Atwell, Leeds University




On Thu, 5 May 2011, Ilze Black wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> I am a PhD student and quite new to this list but I hope you dont mind
> me asking for help here. I have just started my research on spacial
> perception of the Internet. In my initial phase I am trying to establish
> if there are any relevant study been done on a similar questions and in
> particular on any spacial metaphors. In English we often say 'on' the
> Internet, while in Latvia, for example, they say 'in' the Internet. What
> drives these linguistic metaphors? May be someone has some suggestion on
> previous ethnographic studies, method I am thinking to use. Or other
> methodology or models I should look at? Does anyone has any thoughts on
> this? I am also looking to collect spacial metaphors used of the
> Internet space in different languages. Would love to hear your thoughts,
> suggestions and metaphors.
> Thank you in advance and looking forward to hear.
>
> Ilze Black
> black at eecs.qmul.ac.uk
>
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