Strategies for the Semi-Automatic Retrieval of Metaphorical Terms

Gómez-Moreno, José Manuel Ureña; Faber, Pamela

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“…The listed search terms were identified post-hoc on the basis of the collected data, following methodological considerations motivated and detailed in [ 43 ] and related work reported in [ 47 , 49 , 50 ]; see also [ 51 , 52 ] for a similar approach in different fields. In this instance, a post-hoc approach was necessary because of the absence of a clearly established catalogue of linguistic indicators of place attachment, along with the flexibility and scenario dependency of each linguistic data set.…”

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“…For current purposes these were identified as search terms to allow for a semi-automatic approach to coding, and then categorised into a gradual scale ranging from weak to strong indicators of place attachment. Categorisation was based on examination of the data, inspired by the literature on place facets as reported above [24], and captured by an overarching definition as follows ( The listed search terms were identified post-hoc on the basis of the collected data, following methodological considerations motivated and detailed in [43] and related work reported in [47,49,50]; see also [51,52] for a similar approach in different fields. In this instance, a posthoc approach was necessary because of the absence of a clearly established catalogue of linguistic indicators of place attachment, along with the flexibility and scenario dependency of each linguistic data set.…”

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Place attachment and perception of climate change as a threat in rural and urban areas

Tenbrink,

Willcock

2023

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Climate change is a global threat to ecosystems and the people that depend on them. However, the perceived threat of climate change may vary spatially. Previous research suggests that inhabitants in rural areas show higher levels of place attachment (associating meaning with a specific place) than urbanites, possibly because rural people depend more directly on their local environment. This can shape perceptions and behaviours, such as enhanced willingness to engage in landscape preservation. Here we ask if it also makes rural people perceive climate change as a greater threat, using a representative sample of 1,071 survey respondents from across the United Kingdom (UK) to provide first-order insights. We found that, whilst indicators of place attachment were indeed more frequent in rural areas, the perceived threat of climate change in the most rural locations was lower. We discuss possible explanations for this pattern (including lower levels of awareness of the anthropogenic causes of climate change, lessened first-hand experiences of climate change impacts due to higher levels of regulating ecosystem services, and higher levels of resilience in rural areas related to a closer relationship with nature), and call for further research to investigate this.

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Place attachment and perception of climate change as a threat in rural and urban areas

Tenbrink,

Willcock

2023

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“…John Benjamins Publishing Company All rights reserved the field in the analysis of empirical data. The corpus was already used in a previous research study (Ureña and Faber, 2011), where we present an innovative methodology for the semi-automatic retrieval of resemblance metaphor term pairs in English and Spanish. Moreover, the results provided in this article were then revised and refined in Ureña's (2011) Ph.D. dissertation.…”

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Situated metaphor in scientific discourse

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2011

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Cognitive linguists have finally agreed that metaphorical thought is the result of neither nature nor nurture, but a combination of both. Despite the acknowledgment of this dual grounding (Sinha, 1999), cross-linguistic studies addressing the significance of cultural factors to form specialised concepts through metaphor are still rare. Research is even scarcer when it comes to terminological resemblance metaphor. To fill this gap, this paper examines a set of resemblance metaphor term pairs in English and Spanish, which had been retrieved from a corpus of marine biology texts extracted from academic journals. Based on the analysis of these terms, we propose a typology of metaphors which classifies them according to their level of socio-cognitive situatedness. This typology shows that: (i) sensorimotor perception and sociocultural factors merge into a physical-social experience that shapes scientific knowledge through metaphor, and (ii) sociocognitive patterns involved in terminological metaphor formation give rise to inter-linguistic variation and commonalities.

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Figurative thought, colour categorisation and vantage construal in scientific language

Gómez-Moreno

2014

Language Sciences

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for modelling colour categorisation, but not on specialised terminology in itself. This research analyses colour categories in the terminology of marine biology in English and Spanish. For this purpose, the study draws on principles from VT and (socio-)cognitive linguistics, including some general premises from cognitive psychology (e.g. Langacker, 1987; Kristiansen, 2008; Plümacher, 2007). Based on a corpus of academic articles and books, this work explores the semantic and cognitive basis of colour, and explains how vantage construal has a bearing on colour dimensions, such as hue, hue distribution, and brightness, when conceptualising and designating sea organisms and processes. The analysis of the terms revealed that figurative thought plays a pivotal role in the formation of specialised concepts through colour attribution both in English and Spanish. The influence of figurative thought is also shown to give rise to inter-and intralingual terminological variation.

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Strategies for the Semi-Automatic Retrieval of Metaphorical Terms

Cited by 32 publications

References 28 publications

Place attachment and perception of climate change as a threat in rural and urban areas

Place attachment and perception of climate change as a threat in rural and urban areas

Situated metaphor in scientific discourse

Figurative thought, colour categorisation and vantage construal in scientific language

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