Aletta G. Dorst

List of John Benjamins publications for which Aletta G. Dorst plays a role.

Journal

Titles

Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world

Edited by Susan Nacey, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse

Subjects Cognition and language | Theoretical linguistics

A Method for Linguistic Metaphor Identification: From MIP to MIPVU

Gerard J. Steen, Aletta G. Dorst, J. Berenike Herrmann, Anna A. Kaal, Tina Krennmayr and Tryntje Pasma

Subjects Cognitive linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Articles

Machine Translation (MT), the process by which a computer engine such as Google Translate or Bing automatically translates a text from one language into another without any human involvement, is increasingly used in professional, institutional and everyday contexts for a wide range of purposes.… read more
Herrmann, J. Berenike, Karola Woll and Aletta G. Dorst 2019 Chapter 6. Linguistic metaphor identification in GermanMetaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world, Nacey, Susan, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse (eds.), pp. 113–135 | Chapter
Nacey, Susan, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr, W. Gudrun Reijnierse and Gerard J. Steen 2019 Chapter 1. MIPVU in multiple languagesMetaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world, Nacey, Susan, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse (eds.), pp. 1–21 | Chapter
Nacey, Susan, Tina Krennmayr, Aletta G. Dorst and W. Gudrun Reijnierse 2019 Chapter 3. What the MIPVU protocol doesn’t tell you (even though it mostly does)Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world, Nacey, Susan, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse (eds.), pp. 41–67 | Chapter
Steen, Gerard J., Aletta G. Dorst, J. Berenike Herrmann, Anna A. Kaal, Tina Krennmayr and Tryntje Pasma 2019 Chapter 2. MIPVU: A manual for identifying metaphor-related wordsMetaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world, Nacey, Susan, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse (eds.), pp. 23–40 | Chapter
Dorst, Aletta G. and Marry-Loïse Klop 2017 Not a holy father: Dutch Muslim teenagers’ metaphors for AllahMetaphor in Religion and Spirituality, Pihlaja, Stephen (ed.), pp. 66–86 | Article
The use of a dictionary in metaphor identification may lead to conflicts between sense descriptions in the dictionary and analysts’ (native speaker) intuitions about word meanings. This paper offers suggestions for dealing with these conflicts by focusing on the descriptive rather than prescriptive… read more
The manual annotation of large corpora is time-consuming and brings about issues of consistency. This paper aims to demonstrate how general rules for determining basic meanings can be formulated in large-scale projects involving multiple analysts applying MIP(VU) to authentic data. Three sets of… read more
Kaal, Anna A. and Aletta G. Dorst 2012 Chapter 2. Metaphor in discourse: Beyond the boundaries of MIPMetaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication, MacArthur, Fiona, José Luis Oncins-Martínez, Manuel Sánchez-García and Ana M. Piquer-Píriz (eds.), pp. 51–68 | Chapter
The lack of a reliable methodology for identifying metaphor in discourse prompted a group of metaphor researchers to create the so-called MIP (Metaphor Identification Procedure; Pragglejaz Group 2007), which aims at identifying metaphorically used words. In our research project at VU University… read more
Dorst, Aletta G., Gerben Mulder and Gerard J. Steen 2011 Recognition of personifications in fiction by non-expert readersMetaphor and the Social World 1:2, pp. 174–200 | Article
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… read more
Steen, Gerard J., Ewa Biernacka, Aletta G. Dorst, Anna A. Kaal, Clara I. López Rodríguez and Tryntje Pasma 2010 9. Pragglejaz in practice: Finding metaphorically used words in natural discourseResearching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World, Low, Graham, Zazie Todd, Alice Deignan and Lynne Cameron (eds.), pp. 165–184 | Article
This paper aims to present the application of a new method for metaphor identification in discourse, the Pragglejaz Metaphor Identification Procedure, in two corpus-linguistic projects. It provides background information to the method and then demonstrates its basic workings by means of three… read more