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Date: 12-Dec-2011
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Metaphor in newspapers: Krennmayr


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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:04:13
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Metaphor in newspapers: Krennmayr

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Title: Metaphor in newspapers 
Series Title: LOT dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	
Author: Tina Krennmayr

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460930621 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 


Abstract:

Journalistic writing has been a welcome source of natural language data
for metaphor research. The popularity of newspaper texts for metaphor
research would seem to suggest that news is a very metaphorical register.
However, most studies on metaphor in news have been small-scale or 
restricted in their focus, investigating only a small set of linguistic or 
conceptual metaphors, or have lacked a transparent method of metaphor 
identification. This research presents the first investigation of metaphorically 
used words in newspaper articles based on a systematic and transparent 
method of metaphor identification that captures all metaphorical language use 
regardless of source domain or lexical field. Quantitative and qualitative 
analysis examines the distribution, form, function and patterns of 
metaphorical language in news texts compared to its use in the registers 
fiction, academic texts and conversation. The analysis is based on a 
database of about 190,000 words hand-annotated for metaphorical language 
use. Besides its cognitive linguistic, sociolinguistic and discourse-analytical 
approaches, the work also adopts a psycholinguistic angle to investigate the 
influence of metaphor conventionality and metaphor signaling on people's 
mental representation of a news article.

The work will appeal to anyone interested in newspaper texts specifically
and metaphor variation across registers more generally. It is also a helpful
resource to those who are concerned with research methodology: it not only
advances our knowledge of what characterizes metaphor in newspaper 
writing, but also furthers the development of research tools for the 
identification of linguistic metaphors as well as the description of conceptual 
mappings. 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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