Recent corpus studies found that academic prose is particularly rich in metaphor,
but exhibits an unexpectedly low proportion of forms of ‘direct metaphor’,
such as simile (cf. Steen, Dorst, Herrmann, Kaal, & Krennmayr, 2010a; Steen
et al., 2010b). One explanation is deliberate metaphor use: in… read more
This chapter introduces the overall purpose, theoretical background, and
structure of this collective volume. We start with our initial motivation, advancing
the empirical study of metaphor in specialist discourse. Matching our goal,
depicting metaphor use across a range of specialist domains and… read more