Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age
Subtitle: Theory and Methods for Building Repositories of Figurative Language
Publisher: Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9789027262295
Description: 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 provides a series of cognitive linguistic studies focused on highlighting and discussing theoretical and methodological risks and challenges involved in building these digital resources. The volume is a result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between cognitive linguists, psychologists, and computational scientists supporting an overarching idea that metaphor and metonymy play a central role in human cognition, and that they are deeply entrenched in recurring patterns of bodily experience. 0Throughout the volume, a variety of methods are proposed to collect and analyze both conceptual metaphors and metonymies and their linguistic and visual expressions. The readers may appreciate the diversity of the languages, resources, and methods covered.