Towards a Classification of Metaphor Use (original) (raw)

Metaphor analysis in the educational discourse: A critical review

US-China Foreign Language, 2010

英文摘要 Metaphor analysis is based on the belief that metaphor is a powerful linguistic device, because it extends and encapsulates knowledge about the familiarity and unfamiliarity. Metaphor analysis has been adopted in the educational discourse. The ...

The Role of Corpus Studies in Metaphor Research

This paper deals with the changes in metaphor research brought about by corpus-based investigations of corpora. It also touches on the relation between conceptual metaphor theory and corpus studies. The concept of metaphor is defined and examples of conventionalized metaphors mainly taken from the British National Corpus are discussed. The examples illustrate how the corpus data can provide evidence of figurative meaning, what connection there might be between metaphorical meaning and form, how lexico-grammatical units are co-selected, and how the combination of corpus-based research, critical discourse analysis and cognitive semantics can throw light on the use of metaphor in different genres. The problem of identifying metaphor, particularly innovative metaphor, is mentioned and the implications for quantitative information.

The Application of Improved Metaphor Analysis in Education Research

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013

This article aims to investigate the potentials of the method of metaphor analysis used to explore the belief systems of the participants of education processes. It introduces a new instrument called improved metaphor analysis (IMA), which is believed to provide an efficient way of research in the area. To begin with, the linguistic and psychological background is introduced, followed by a brief review of the principles and the existing methodologies of metaphor analysis in education, in particular the benefits and the drawbacks of the current applications. Within this framework, IMA intends to improve the method of using metaphors for research in education through resolving the demands of objectivity in research by means of maintaining reliable data processing while working with sensitive issues.

Chapter 2: Analysing Metaphor in Texts

It is now accepted as axiomatic that metaphor pervades all kinds of human discourse, and popular scientific texts are no exception. Indeed, such texts often contain a remarkable number of metaphorical expressions, metaphor in popular science fulfilling a number of different functions. This thesis involves a text-based analysis of nearly 1400 translation examples drawn from a corpus consisting of the official published translations into French, Italian, German, Russian and Polish of 62 Scientific American articles that appeared between January 2003 and July 2004. It aims to provide a broadly qualitative analysis of the kinds of solution that translators commonly resort to in rendering both single metaphorical expressions and entire underlying structures. One of the main advantages of such a data-rich multilingual study is that it can potentially produce results that allow one to draw conclusions about a particular aspect of translation at a high level of generalisation, and this is a benefit that the work seeks to exploit. The approach adopted is inductive, and the thesis offers a categorisation of source-text metaphorical expressions along the lines of the following seven parameters: mapping, typological class, provenance, richness, level of categorisation, purpose and conventionality. Of these, three are used to produce a detailed analysis of the translation patterns contained in the corpus, the use of multiple parameters in this way making it possible to view the data from a range of different angles. Throughout, the work is informed by the insights of translation studies and metaphor studies, and indeed explores the relationship between these two disciplines. However, its ultimate centre of gravity lies within translation studies.

Metaphor as a Means to Write a Good English Written Text

A written text should be different from a spoken text for their different characteristics. The complexity of grammar in clause constructions of written texts may serve as the core distinguishing factor between the two kinds of texts. However, the question arises about how complex or how complicated the written text grammar is. This paper is aimed at applying the concept of systemic functional linguistics based metaphor to distinguish a written text from a spoken text. The application of the metaphor concept is related to the lexical density of a clause through which a characteristic of a written text is generated. The realization of lexical density should give a credit to nominalization as a technique of reducing the number of clauses in a written text. Furthermore, a written text is closely related to a scientific text taking academicians including students, teachers, and lecturers as the readers. This paper also demonstrates the way of reformulating spoken texts into written texts. This concept is particularly helpful for those in the writing process of their final projects at universities.

Metaphor corpora and corporeal metaphors-2003

By focusing on such traditions of usage, a corpus-based analysis can highlight argumentative tendencies and ideological assumptions that are associated with specific scenarios rather than with general source domains. The grouping of lexical and phraseological items in scenarios and the distribution of these scenarios in a public discourse corpus can thus be understood as indicators of thematic and argumentative perspectives that are representative for a discourse community.

Corpus-based Studies of Metaphor: An Overview

2022

The researchers performed this systematic review to offer insights into the trend of the corpusbased approach in studying metaphor in recent years and investigate the potential gaps and underresearched areas in the past literature on the topic. Two research databases, namely Google Scholar and Academics, were explored to collect data. The analysis of metaphor-related research studies published between 2015 and 2020 revealed more than 78 studies dealing with the topic of investigation. After the screening process, 23 studies that met the research criteria were retained for analysis. The selected articles were further analyzed using the two-step analysis involving quantitative and qualitative approaches, i.e., descriptive statistics, and thematic analysis. The findings revealed that metaphor studies employing the corpus approach tend to use existing corpus like the Reference Corpus instead of a specialized corpus. In addition, metaphor studies in this review centered more on written discourse than spoken data. Furthermore, there is also a lack of information on the corpus tool employed in the examined studies. Meanwhile, the thematic analysis unearthed potential gaps and under-researched areas, such as limited studies on COVID-19 metaphor even though the outbreak had started at the end of 2019. Future studies on this research could include more specialized corpora, specifically in the under-researched topics, to fill in the gaps in this area of study.