Models of Metaphor Identification: Observations and Insights
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This paper will consider a number of recently offered procedures and models of metaphor identification in the literature. The purpose is to evaluate their possible significance for application to the detection of conceptual metaphors in corpora. It is on the basis of such an evaluation that a new corpus-based model of metaphor identification is proposed. Compared to most previous ones, this model goes beyond the mere act of tracking the surface linguistic forms of metaphors in discourse to identifying the underlying conceptual metaphors that give rise to them. In so doing, a combination of automatic and manual means is employed. The two together have proved to be efficient in accelerating the process of revealing the conceptual bases underpinning patterns of linguistic metaphors in a particular corpus of texts. The proposed model holds important empirical implications as it highlights how conceptual metaphors operate and can be identified in a discourse context. It can therefore be utilized in the development of a simplified and generalizable framework capable of facilitating the researcher’s ability to detect and analyze metaphorical language.
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This paper will consider a number of recently offered procedures and models of metaphor identification in the literature. The purpose is to evaluate their possible significance for application to the detection of conceptual metaphors in corpora. It is on the basis of such an evaluation that a new corpus-based model of metaphor identification is proposed. Compared to most previous ones, this model goes beyond the mere act of tracking the surface linguistic forms of metaphors in discourse to identifying the underlying conceptual metaphors that give rise to them. In so doing, a combination of automatic and manual means is employed. The two together have proved to be efficient in accelerating the process of revealing the conceptual bases underpinning patterns of linguistic metaphors in a particular corpus of texts. The proposed model holds important empirical implications as it highlights how conceptual metaphors operate and can be identified in a discourse context. It can therefore be utilized in the development of a simplified and generalizable framework capable of facilitating the researcher’s ability to detect and analyze metaphorical language.