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Download full textAbdul Malik, Norasyikin; Ya Shak, Mohamad Syafiq; Mohamad, Faizah; Joharry, Siti Aeisha – Arab World English Journal, 2022
The researchers performed this systematic review to offer insights into the trend of the corpus based approach in studying metaphor in recent years and investigate the potential gaps and underresearched areas in the past literature on the topic. Two research databases, namely Google Scholar and Academics, were explored to collect data. The…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Figurative Language, COVID-19, Pandemics
Direct linkChunmei Chen; Qingshun He – SAGE Open, 2024
Metaphor of modality in the Hallidayan linguistic framework is manifested through a transition from implicit modal expressions to explicit modal expressions, encompassing metaphor of modalization and metaphor of modulation. This article conducts a corpus-based investigation to examine the prevalence of metaphors of modalization in English academic…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics
Hu, Chunyu; Liu, Huijie – English Language Teaching, 2016
A historical perspective on economy metaphor can shed new lights on economic thoughts. Based on the TIME Magazine Corpus (TMC), this paper investigates inflation metaphor over 83 years and compares findings against the economic data over the relatively corresponding period. The results show how inflation, an abstract concept and a normal economic…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Periodicals, Economic Climate, Comparative Analysis
Szudarski, Pawel – TESL Canada Journal, 2017
The aim of this article is to present and summarize the main research findings in the area of learning and teaching second language (L2) collocations. Being a large part of naturally occurring language, collocations and other types of multiword units (e.g., idioms, phrasal verbs, lexical bundles) have been identified as important aspects of L2…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Graedler, Anne-Line – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2014
This article explores some dimensions of how the role of the English language in Norway has been discursively constructed in newspapers during recent years, based on the analysis of data from the five-year period 2008-2012. The analysis is conducted using a specialised corpus containing 3,743 newspaper articles which were subjected to corpus-based…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Negative Attitudes, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries
Xu, Jian – English Language Teaching, 2009
Based on a review of the historical and current studies on modality, this paper aims at interpreting metaphor of modality and its functions in advertising English according to theories of modality system and metaphor of modality in systemic-functional linguistics with a corpus we have collected. It is pointed out that metaphor of modality, a usual…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Advertising, Figurative Language, Second Language Learning
