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Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics

Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus

Rafael Alejo-González

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Routledge
22 December 2023
Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics: Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus offers a model for building a corpus of oral EMI seminars. It demonstrates how incorporating metaphor to the process of corpus building affords a more comprehensive description of the role of metaphor in discourse.

EMI is the specific context outlined in this volume, and as such it will be of particular interest to researchers in this area, though the design and model can be easily generalised and applied to other corpora focusing on metaphor. Alejo-González argues for the need to build such a corpus given the scarcity of corpora being tagged for metaphor as well as the shortage of those dealing with the EMI phenomenon.

This book will be of practical use and interest to those researchers of corpus linguistics or related areas looking to explore metaphor through their corpus studies.

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   540g
ISBN:   9781032510576
ISBN 10:   1032510579
Series:   Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics
Pages:   194
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Acknowledgements 1: Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics Introduction Introduction to a cognitive-linguistic approach to metaphor Metaphor in thought vs metaphor in language Linguistic approaches to metaphor: basic context for a corpus-linguistic methodology Main research perspectives to naturally occurring metaphors Corpus data Sample identification methods Automated metaphor searching Census identification methods: corpora fully tagged for metaphor Conclusion Note References 2: English as a Medium of Instruction English as a lingua franca English taught programmes in higher education Defining EMI: distinctive traits Metaphor in EMI Metaphor in academic English Metaphor in language teaching Metaphor in L2 acquisition Metaphor in ELF Conclusion References 3: Introducing the MetCLIL corpus Explaining the need for MetCLIL Structure of the corpus: description of recorded events Section A: EMI provision in Southern Europe Section B: EMI provision in North and Central Europe Describing participants Number of participants Demographic data Internationalisation English proficiency Using MetCLIL online Conclusion Notes References 4: Building MetCLIL Criteria used in building METCLIL Size Representativeness Authenticity Balance Main design features: key MetCLIL variables Genre Institutions and countries Participants Data Collection Recruitment Recording Results of data collection Transcription Introduction Non-verbal data Verbal data Added information: contextual and structural mark-up Anonymisation Tokenisation Part of speech mark-up Conclusion Notes References 5: Metaphor tagging Introduction to metaphor identification methods Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP) Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije University (MIPVU) Particular cases of metaphor analysis Determining lexical units Conclusion Notes References 6: Quantifying metaphor use. The role of external variables Quantitative methods in the study of metaphor Quantitative studies in register and genre variation Metaphor density in MetCLIL Variation in MetCLIL Conclusion References 7: Individual variables Individual variables in metaphor use L2 metaphor use Metaphorical competence Metaphor in L2 production L1 induced variation: the role of transfer Speaker’s role Analysis of individual variables in MetCLIL L2 proficiency in MetCLIL L1-induced variation Comparing the metaphor production of lecturers and learners Conclusion References 8: Exemplary study of speech metaphors: Corpus exploration of a target domain Corpus studies of speech metaphors Introduction Background The importance of speech in the seminars: a keyword analysis Literal vs metaphorical speech Speech or pitch Literal speech Metaphorical speech An analysis of source domains for speech metaphors Motion Visual metaphors Construction Transfer Storytelling Conclusion Final recapitulation and suggestions for further research References Appendices Index

Rafael Alejo-González is Associate Professor of English at the University of Extremadura, Spain.

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