This study examines metaphorical expressions in American radio news magazines appearing in two linguistic forms: NP is a NP and It’s like NP. It integrates Blending Theory (Fauconnier & Turner 2002) with a usage-based approach to grammatical constructions (Goldberg 1995, 2006;Tomasello 2003, and Croft 2001) and analyzes the forms within their dynamic discourse context in terms of noun phrase accessibility (Chafe 1980, 1994; Givón 1983; Ariel 1988) and grounding (Langacker 1999, Oakley & Coulson 2008). The findings indicate that the functions of the grammatical constructions used in the metaphorical expressions were directly related to the non-metaphorical uses of the constructions and that the analysis of the ongoing discourse was essential to understanding the form-meaning pairings inherent in the expressions.
2024. Interaction and conventionalized expressions create the contexts for bleaching and constructional expansion: the case of GRAB. Folia Linguistica 58:2 ► pp. 473 ff.
2019. Lexico-grammatical alignment in metaphor construal. Cognitive Linguistics 30:1 ► pp. 165 ff.
Lou, Adrian
2017. Multimodal simile. English Text Construction 10:1 ► pp. 106 ff.
Porto, M. Dolores & Manuela Romano
2017. ‘You’ve just got to walk away’: Mixed viewpoints in radio call-in trauma narratives. Journal of Pragmatics 122 ► pp. 35 ff.
Cuenca, Maria Josep
2015. Beyond compare. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13:1 ► pp. 140 ff.
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