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Publication details [#61579]

Roncero, Carlos, Roberto G. de Almeida, Deborah C. Martin and Marco de Caro. 2016. Aptness Predicts Metaphor Preference in the Lab and on the Internet. Metaphor and Symbol 31 (1) : 31–56.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This paper explores Internet metaphor and simile generation via the Google search engine and verifies co-occurring comments and the qualities they convey, to inquire whether scales like ability and conventionality, and participants’ own expressed choice or the aim to provide an elucidation, would portend which topic–vehicle pairs emerge more frequently as metaphors. Internet posters seem to employ metaphor and simile frames to respectively transmit fit and novel relationships.