Partington 98, below, has a chapter on metaphors & corpora. His method is based
on inspection of concordances and analysis of collocations.
Partington, A. (1998). *Patterns and Meanings - Using Corpora for English
Language Research and Teaching*. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 2.)
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Deignan 99 also looks at metaphor through concordance data:
Deignan, A. (1999). Corpus-based research into metaphor. In L. Cameron & G. Low
(Eds.), *Researching and Applying Metaphor* (pp. 203-220). Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
So does the other Deignan 99:
Deignan, A. (1999). Linguistic metaphor and collocation in nonliterary corpus
data. *Metaphor and Symbol*, *14*(1), 19-36.
I think Stubbs 1996 also includes a chapter on metaphor, but don't have book at
hand at the moment to check.
Stubbs, M. (1996). *Text and Corpus Analysis -- Computer-Assisted Studies of
Language and Culture*. Oxford: Blackwell.
cheers
tony
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Dr Tony Berber Sardinha
Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
tony4@uol.com.br
http://sites.uol.com.br/tony4/homepage.html
http://homepages.infoseek.com/~corpuslinguistics/homepage.html
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> From: Denis Jamet <denis.jamet@libertysurf.fr>
> To: CORPORA <corpora@hd.uib.no>
> Subject: Corpora: metaphors
> Date: 08 October 1999 04:57
>
> 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