Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics

Sardinha, Tony Berber

doi:10.1590/s1984-63982011000200004

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“…In conceptual metaphor theory, corpus linguistics is essential in examining a large source of data. Sardinha (2011) agrees that metaphor probabilities and dimensions of metaphor variation are two of the aspects provided by the use of corpus linguistics in metaphor research. The use of concordance software that involves large text corpora has also been extensive, especially when it involves a large number of data.…”

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Still Young But Full-Fledged Democracy

Adam¹,

Prautomo²

2021

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)

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This paper examines the Indonesian Democracy as the target domain of conceptual metaphor used in foreign media news reports around the 2019 general election. The study aims to identify the sub-topics of the target domain related to Indonesian Democracy and further to describe the highlighted image and view towards Indonesian democracy. The data were taken from forty foreign news reports from four different media. The Conceptual Metaphor Framework of Lakoff and Johnson (1980) was used. The data analysis was conducted in two stages; the first stage was quantitative analysis using AntCoc Corpus Concordance Software, and the second stage was qualitative analysis to analyze the sub-topic of the conceptual metaphor target domain. The result showed that from seventy-seven democracy-related discourse, there were fifteen metaphorical expressions. Three main sub-topics generally described the target domain democracy: the age and the development of Indonesian democracy, the perception towards democracy, and the importance of Indonesian democracy for geopolitical stability. The results also show that Indonesian democracy is viewed as growing in a better direction as described in metaphors such as the only remaining democratic bright spots in South East Asia and the largest displays of democracy globally.

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confidence: 62%

Still Young But Full-Fledged Democracy

Adam¹,

Prautomo²

2021

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)

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“…A concordance-based analysis is often performed on a sample of concordance lines extracted from the corpus (e.g., 1,000 lines). The choice of search terms influences concordance-based analyses because they specify what will and will not be found in the corpus (Sardinha, 2011). The current research is a qualitative study that adopts a concordancebased analysis for several reasons.…”

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“…Most literature on conceptual metaphors focuses on metaphors in English, with only minimal reports on other languages (Sardinha, 2011). Research into metaphors in other languages is necessary to broaden the understanding of linguistic, as well as conceptual, metaphors and to determine how similar and/or different they are.…”

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Conceptual metaphors in North African French-speaking news discourse about COVID-19

Lahlou

Rahim

2022

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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Conceptual metaphors have received much attention in research on discourse about infectious diseases in recent years. Most studies found that conceptual metaphors of war dominate media discourse about disease. Similarly, a great deal of research has been undertaken on the new coronavirus, i.e., COVID-19, especially in the English news discourse as opposed to other languages. The present study, in contrast, analyses the conceptual metaphors used in COVID-19 discourse in French-language newspapers. The study explored the linguistic metaphors used in COVID-19 discourse in these newspapers and conceptual metaphors that underlie and motivate them, using a conceptual metaphor theory framework (CMT). Therefore, two North African French-language newspapers, namely Libération, published in Morocco, and La Presse de Tunisie, published in Tunisia, formed the corpus of the current study. The results showed that the most frequent framing of COVID-19 was in terms of WAR, followed by DISASTER and KILLER, respectively.

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“…Ways to distinguish methods for analyzing metaphor are qualitative versus quantitative, manual versus automatized, inductive versus deductive . The deductive approach (also called the top-down approach) and automated methods start from a predetermined set of conceptual metaphors, or a database of linguistic metaphors, and using this set, one looks for instances of them in a given text (Sardinha, 2011).…”

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Media rhetoric plays the market

Landtsheer

2015

MSW

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This article examines the logic and power of financial news metaphors in the current economic climate. The sequence of global financial crises starting in late 2007 led to a particular discursive phenomenon in financial news. Newspapers constructed, with vivid imagery (e.g.,toxic loans,nervous markets to be calmed down), a globalized register for talking and writing about the crises. The empirical study of 3,730 Dutch and Flemish-Belgian financial news articles (2,042,596 words) investigates how during 2006–2013 metaphor power (De Landtsheer, 2009) interacts with financial-economic indicators. It is suggested, on the basis of the case study, that financial news articles generally may be more metaphorical during crises; metaphor power significantly correlates with Eurostat financial-economic indicators in either a positive direction (unemployment rates, public debt) or a negative one (gross national product, consumer confidence).

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Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics

Cited by 15 publications

References 9 publications

Still Young But Full-Fledged Democracy

Still Young But Full-Fledged Democracy

Conceptual metaphors in North African French-speaking news discourse about COVID-19

Media rhetoric plays the market

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