24.2694, Books: Metaphor in academic discourse: Herrmann

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Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:22:01
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Metaphor in academic discourse: Herrmann

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Title: Metaphor in academic discourse 
Subtitle: Linguistic forms, conceptual structures, communicative functions and
cognitive representations

Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/index3.html 

Author: Julia Berenike Herrmann

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460931154 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 24.57

Abstract:

Traditionally, metaphor has been seen as a threat to the scientific maxims of
accuracy, truth, and explicitness. This view is still reflected in academic
writing conventions, but has been opposed by research suggesting that metaphor
is an indispensable part of natural language. So far, most studies on metaphor
in academic prose have been conducted on a small scale or restricted in their
focus, investigating only small sets of metaphors, or have lacked a
transparent method of metaphor identification. This book presents a new type
of metaphor research into written academic discourse. On the basis of a
systematic and consistent method which identified metaphorical language on a
word-by-word basis, it constructs the first register profile of academic prose
that takes into account metaphor. Patterns of metaphorical language use in
academic prose are described in terms of lexico-grammatical forms,
communicative functions, and underlying conceptual structures. A
hand-annotated corpus of 190,000 words of natural language, allowed for
consistent cross-register comparison with news, fiction, and conversation. The
work not only approaches metaphor from a cognitive-linguistic,
sociolinguistic, and discourse-analytical angle, but also from a
psycholinguistic one, investigating the processing of metaphorical language in
academic discourse as influenced by academic expertise and metaphor
conventionality. This research is useful for anyone interested in the study of
academic discourse, metaphor in specialized discourse, and register variation
in general. In addition to furthering our knowledge of the characteristics of
academic discourse, its focus on methodology will be helpful to those
concerned with the methodological aspects of metaphor analysis.

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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