Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics

Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics: Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus offers a model for building a corpus of oral EMI seminars. It demonstrates how incorporating metaphor to the process of corpus building affords a more comprehensive description of the role of metaphor in discourse.

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Rafael Alejo-González is Associate Professor of English at the University of Extremadura, Spain.

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Acknowledgements

1: Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics

Introduction

Introduction to a cognitive-linguistic approach to metaphor

Metaphor in thought vs metaphor in language

Linguistic approaches to metaphor: basic context for a corpus-linguistic methodology

Main research perspectives to naturally occurring metaphors

Corpus data

Sample identification methods

Automated metaphor searching

Census identification methods: corpora fully tagged for metaphor

Conclusion

Note

References

2: English as a Medium of Instruction

English as a lingua franca

English taught programmes in higher education

Defining EMI: distinctive traits

Metaphor in EMI

Metaphor in academic English

Metaphor in language teaching

Metaphor in L2 acquisition

Metaphor in ELF

Conclusion

References

3: Introducing the MetCLIL corpus

Explaining the need for MetCLIL

Structure of the corpus: description of recorded events

Section A: EMI provision in Southern Europe

Section B: EMI provision in North and Central Europe

Describing participants

Number of participants

Demographic data

Internationalisation

English proficiency

Using MetCLIL online

Conclusion

Notes

References

4: Building MetCLIL

Criteria used in building METCLIL

Size

Representativeness

Authenticity

Balance

Main design features: key MetCLIL variables

Genre

Institutions and countries

Participants

Data Collection

Recruitment

Recording

Results of data collection

Transcription

Introduction

Non-verbal data

Verbal data

Added information: contextual and structural mark-up

Anonymisation

Tokenisation

Part of speech mark-up

Conclusion

Notes

References

5: Metaphor tagging

Introduction to metaphor identification methods

Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP)

Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije University (MIPVU)

Particular cases of metaphor analysis

Determining lexical units

Conclusion

Notes

References

6: Quantifying metaphor use. The role of external variables

Quantitative methods in the study of metaphor

Quantitative studies in register and genre variation

Metaphor density in MetCLIL

Variation in MetCLIL

Conclusion

References

7: Individual variables

Individual variables in metaphor use

L2 metaphor use

Metaphorical competence

Metaphor in L2 production

L1 induced variation: the role of transfer

Speaker's role

Analysis of individual variables in MetCLIL

L2 proficiency in MetCLIL

L1-induced variation

Comparing the metaphor production of lecturers and learners

Conclusion

References

8: Exemplary study of speech metaphors: Corpus exploration of a target domain

Corpus studies of speech metaphors

Introduction

Background

The importance of speech in the seminars: a keyword analysis

Literal vs metaphorical speech

Speech or pitch

Literal speech

Metaphorical speech

An analysis of source domains for speech metaphors

Motion

Visual metaphors

Construction

Transfer

Storytelling

Conclusion

Final recapitulation and suggestions for further research

References

Appendices

Index