Corpora: metaphors

Denis Jamet (denis.jamet@libertysurf.fr)
Fri, 08 Oct 1999 09:57:31 +0200

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Hi everyone,

I am currently working on metaphors, and trying to find a way of
"extracting" metaphors from a corpus. The problem I came across is that
metaphor, consisting in a semantic shift, shows no formal features (i.e.
there are no distinctive features between "John is a boy" (literal) and
"John is a lion" (figurative)). Does anyone know how to retrieve
metaphors from a corpus ? Or does anyone happen to know a "corpus of
metaphors" ?

Thanks,
Denis

Denis Jamet
Professor of English Linguistics
Université Jean Moulin - Lyon3
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