Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age

Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language

Editors

Marianna Bolognesi | University of Oxford

Mario Brdar | University of Osijek, Croatia

Kristina Š. Despot | Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

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This book describes methods, risks, and challenges involved in the construction of metaphor and metonymy digital repositories. The first part of this volume showcases established and new projects around the world in which metaphors and metonymies are harvested and classified. The second part provides a series of cognitive linguistic studies focused on highlighting and discussing theoretical and methodological risks and challenges involved in building these digital resources. The volume is a result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between cognitive linguists, psychologists, and computational scientists supporting an overarching idea that metaphor and metonymy play a central role in human cognition, and that they are deeply entrenched in recurring patterns of bodily experience. Throughout the volume, a variety of methods are proposed to collect and analyze both conceptual metaphors and metonymies and their linguistic and visual expressions.

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 8] 2019. x, 263 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/milcc.8

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements | pp. i–ii

Fantastic metaphors and where to find them

Marianna Bolognesi and Kristina Despot | pp. 1–20

Part I. New methods and digital resources for mining metaphor and metonymy in thought, language, and images

Chapter 1. MetaNet: Automated metaphor identification across languages and domains

Eve Sweetser, Oana David and Elise Stickles | pp. 21–48

Chapter 2. The tripartite typology and the Córdoba Metonymy Database

Antonio Barcelona | pp. 49–74

Chapter 3. Metaphor in the age of mechanical production: (Or: Turning potential metaphors into deliberate metaphors)

Tony Veale | pp. 75–98

Chapter 4. VisMet and the crowd: What social tagging reveals about visual metaphors

Marianna Bolognesi, Benjamin Timmermans and Lora Aroyo | pp. 99–122

Chapter 5. MetaNet.HR: Croatian metaphor repository

Kristina Despot, Mirjana Tonković, Mario Essert, Mario Brdar, Benedikt Perak, Ana Ostroški Anić, Bruno Nahod and Ivan Pandžić | pp. 123–146

Part II. Reflecting on the risks and challenges involved in building and using repositories of figurative language

Chapter 6. The lexical vs. corpus-based method in the study of metaphors

Zoltán Kövecses, Laura Ambrus, Dániel Hegedűs, Ren Imai and Anna Sobczak | pp. 147–174

Chapter 7. Figurative reasoning in hedged performatives

Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda L. Thornburg | pp. 175–198

Chapter 8. Mereology in the flesh

Simon Devylder | pp. 199–224

Chapter 9. Metaphor repositories and cross-linguistic comparison: Ontological eggs and chickens

Mario Brdar, Rita Brdar-Szabó and Benedikt Perak | pp. 225–252

Notes on contributors | pp. 253–254

“This volume will be invaluable for anyone looking to build or use an electronic repository for research on figurative language, particularly metaphor. [...] An excellent fit for anyone looking for a map of the pitfalls of electronic repositories of figurative language.”

Christopher R. Karzmark, University of California, Santa Cruz, in Metaphor and the Social World 12:1 (2022)

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