This paper offers an integrated typology for the classification of personifications in discourse, based on existing methods for linguistic metaphor identification such as MIP (Pragglejaz Group, 2007) and MIPVU (Steen et al., 2010). The psychological relevance of the proposed typology is explored in an empirical study that examines the recognition of personifications in fiction by non-expert readers. A selection of structural properties of personifications is discussed and predictions are formulated regarding which values of which variables are deemed to boost the recognition of personifications. The results suggest that the different types of personification differ in recognizability and that their recognition may be more strongly determined by inherent properties (such as conventionality) than by external factors (such as the presence of a prime). Though the results cannot be unambiguously interpreted, they do indicate some tendencies in the behaviour of non-expert readers and their perceptions of the forms and functions of personification in fiction.
2023. When MIPVU goes to no man’s land: a new language resource for hybrid, morpheme-based metaphor identification in Hungarian. Language Resources and Evaluation
Sánchez Rodas, Fernando & Gloria Corpas Pastor
2023. Argument-Structure Constructions with Organization Names in the English Eurolect. Names 71:2 ► pp. 12 ff.
Cibulskienė, Jurga & Inesa Šeškauskienė
2022. Ukraine’s Voice Makes Russia Angry; Lithuania Speaks Boldly... Constructing attitudinal stance through personification of countries. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 18:2 ► pp. 303 ff.
Dyrmo, Tomasz
2022. A multilevel cognitive model of coming out. Prace Językoznawcze 24:4 ► pp. 27 ff.
Fielden-Burns, Laura V. & Ana M. Piquer-Píriz
2022. Personification and relationships in English as a Medium of Instruction business discourse: Crossing paths in metaphorical constructions. Journal of Pragmatics 202 ► pp. 145 ff.
Galac, Ádám
2022. Megszemélyesítő konceptualizációk a látás, hallás és szaglás fogalmi tartományában. Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat 9:1 ► pp. 155 ff.
2021. Metaphor in Science Communication: With Special Reference to Jade Rabbit of the Moon Rover. Science Communication 43:6 ► pp. 719 ff.
Viimaranta, Johanna & Arto Mustajoki
2020. What Can Science, Religion, Politics, Culture and the Economy Do? A Corpus Study of Metonymical Conceptualization Combined with Personification. Scando-Slavica 66:1 ► pp. 71 ff.
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