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Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world
Edited by Susan Nacey, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 22] 2019
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Chapter 14
Linguistic metaphor identification in English as a lingua franca

| , , SpainUniversidad de Extremadura, Spain
Article outline
  • 14.1Introduction
  • 14.2Metaphor in English as (academic) lingua franca: Problems and challenges
  • 14.3The European corpus of academic talk (EuroCoAT)
  • 14.4Lexical units
  • 14.5Contextual meanings
  • 14.6More basic meanings
  • 14.7Deciding on metaphorical meanings
  • 14.8Application of the modifications to MIPVU: Mark-up system and the search for coherence
  • 14.9Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 28 November 2019
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