Colouring Meaning: Collocation and connotation in figurative language
Gill Philip
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 43] 2011. xiii, 232 pp.
Gill Philip
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gill Philip plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Corpus linguistics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
2018 We can do without these words: Investigating prescriptive attitudes to meaning in a specialised discourse The Corpus Linguistics Discourse: In honour of Wolfgang Teubert, Čermáková, Anna and Michaela Mahlberg (eds.), pp. 127–162 | Chapter
This chapter deals with a Style Guide written in 2013 for the British Civil Service. It included a list of words to avoid, from the difficult and vague, to the metaphorical. Viewing the Style Guide as a genuine attempt to resolve problems with the Civil Service’s notoriously convoluted prose… read more
2015 Knowing, Unknowing, Believing stances and characters’ dialogic identities in the Harry Potter books Constructing and Negotiating Identity in Dialogue, Săftoiu, Răzvan (ed.), pp. 62–89 | Article
In a previous paper (Philip et al. 2013) we presented the analysis of the main characters’ identities, as they emerge from the dialogues in Chapter 10 of the seventh book of the Harry Potter series, in relation to their Knowing, Unknowing, and Believing epistemic stances. The aim of the present… read more
2013 Negotiating narrative: Dialogic dynamics of Known, Unknown and Believed in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Literary Linguistics, Müller-Wood, Anja (ed.), pp. 7–33 | Article
Within the framework of KUB Theory (Bongelli and Zuczkowski 2008, Zuczkowski et al. 2011), information communicated verbally can ultimately be reduced to one of three categories: what the speaker knows (Known), what the speaker does not know (Unknown) and what the speaker believes (Believed).… read more
2012 Chapter 4. Locating metaphor candidates in specialized corpora using raw frequency and keyword lists Metaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication, MacArthur, Fiona, José Luis Oncins-Martínez, Manuel Sánchez-García and Ana M. Piquer-Píriz (eds.), pp. 85–106 | Chapter
This chapter explains one method that can be used to extract linguistic metaphors from a specialized corpus of Italian political speeches, using statistically-based measures incorporated into most standard corpus query software – in this case, WordSmith Tools (Scott 2004). This method can be used… read more
2010 Metaphorical keyness in specialised corpora Keyness in Texts, Bondi, Marina and Mike Scott (eds.), pp. 185–204 | Article
What is more important in text: the topical content, or the manner in which topical content is presented? While statistically-generated key words tell us about a text’s content, the inter-relation between these words and the message of the text can be difficult to ascertain. One method of doing so… read more
2010 4. “Drugs, traffic, and many other dirty interests”: Metaphor and the language learner Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World, Low, Graham, Zazie Todd, Alice Deignan and Lynne Cameron (eds.), pp. 63–80 | Article
Existing empirical research into the role of metaphor in the foreign language learning process focuses primarily on comprehension and recall. Yet students’ ability to produce conventional metaphor in their speech and writing is considered one of the measures of advanced proficiency in a foreign… read more
2009 Arriving at equivalence: Making a case for comparable general reference corpora in translation studies Corpus Use and Translating: Corpus use for learning to translate and learning corpus use to translate, Beeby, Allison, Patricia Rodríguez-Inés and Pilar Sánchez-Gijón (eds.), pp. 59–73 | Article
When multilingual corpora are used in translation studies, it is usually assumed that they are either translated (parallel) or comparable, or both; and that their size and text composition are analogous. As general reference corpora become more widely available, it is inevitable that these too… read more
2008 6. Reassessing the canon: 'Fixed' phrases in general reference corpora Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective, Granger, Sylviane and Fanny Meunier (eds.), pp. 95–108 | Article
This chapter sets forth the argument for revisiting fixed phrases in the light of the knowledge that their fixedness is not necessarily something to be taken for granted. It focuses on the location and analysis of variant forms in general reference corpora. Existing phraseological structures,… read more