Metaphor and metonymy in the digital age : theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language

Metaphor and metonymy in the digital age : theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language / edited by Marianna Bolognesi, Mario Brdar, Kristina Despot.

This book describes methods, risks, and challenges involved in the construction of metaphor and metonymy digital repositories. The first part of this volume showcases established and new projects around the world in which metaphors and metonymies are harvested and classified. The second part provide...

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Other Authors: Bolognesi, Marianna (Editor), Brdar, Mario (Editor), Despot, Kristina, 1978- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Series:Metaphor in language, cognition, and communication, Volume 8
Subjects:
Metaphor.
Metonyms.
Digital libraries.
metaphor.
metonymy.
Digital libraries
Metaphor
Metonyms
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • Fantastic metaphors and where to find them / Marianna Bolognesi & Kristina Despot
  • Part I. New methods and digital resources for mining metaphor and metonymy in thought, language, and images: 1. MetaNet / Eve Sweetser, Oana David & Elise Stickles
  • 2. The tripartite typology and the Córdoba Metonymy Database / Antonio Barcelona
  • 3. Metaphor in the age of mechanical production: (Or: Turning potential metaphors into deliberate metaphors) / Tony Veale
  • 4. VisMet and the crowd: What social tagging reveals about visual metaphors / arianna Bolognesi, Benjamin Timmermans & Lora Aroyo
  • 5. MetaNet. HR: Croatian metaphor repository / Kristina Despot, Mirjana Tonković, Mario Essert, Mario Brdar, Benedikt Perak, Ana Ostroški Anić, Bruno Nahod & Ivan Pandžić
  • Part II. Reflecting on the risks and challenges involved in building and using repositories of figurative language: 6. The lexical vs. corpus-based method in the study of metaphors / Zoltán Kövecses, Laura Ambrus, Dániel Hegedus, Ren Imai & Anna Sobczak
  • 7. Figurative reasoning in hedged performatives / Klaus-Uwe Panther & Linda L. Thornburg
  • 8. Mereology in the flesh / Simon Devylder
  • 9. Metaphor repositories and cross-linguistic comparison: Ontological eggs and chickens / Mario Brdar, Rita Brdar-Szabó & Benedikt Perak
  • Notes on contributors.

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