Converging Linguistic and Communication Research - 14: A Method for Linguistic Metaphor Identification
- 250 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Offers a method for the identification of metaphor in language at the level of word use. This title is based on extensive methodological and empirical corpus-linguistic research in two languages, English and Dutch. In five case studies, it addresses metaphor in English news texts, conversations, fiction, and academic texts.