Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 1 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 4 |
Descriptor
Source
Applied Linguistics | 4 |
Author
Ahrens, Kathleen | 1 |
Burgers, Christian | 1 |
Cameron, Lynne | 1 |
Deignan, Alice | 1 |
Koester, Almut | 1 |
Littlemore, Jeannette | 1 |
Low, Graham | 1 |
O'Halloran, Kieran | 1 |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 4 |
Reports - Evaluative | 2 |
Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Reports - Research | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
United Kingdom | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Burgers, Christian; Ahrens, Kathleen – Applied Linguistics, 2020
The literature provides diverging perspectives on the universality and stability of economic metaphors over time. This article contains a diachronic analysis of economic metaphors describing trade in a corpus of 225 years of US State of the Union addresses (1790-2014). We focused on two types of change: (i) replacement of a source domain by…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Economics, Computational Linguistics, Speeches
Low, Graham; Littlemore, Jeannette; Koester, Almut – Applied Linguistics, 2008
It has been claimed in recent years that, on the one hand, metaphor occurs in UK university lectures in ways that are likely to confuse ESL learners (Littlemore 2001, 2003) and on the other hand that US lecturers use it in highly structured ways, particularly involving linked clusters, to help organize the lecture and indicate the opinions of the…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries, Computational Linguistics
Critical Discourse Analysis and the Corpus-Informed Interpretation of Metaphor at the Register Level
O'Halloran, Kieran – Applied Linguistics, 2007
One aspect of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) involves examining how metaphors in texts, particularly hard news texts (reports of very recent conflicts, crimes, etc.), imply certain values. The usual theoretical basis for such analysis is Lakoff and Johnson (1980). My article shows problems with transplanting Lakoff and Johnson's discourse-level…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Figurative Language, Computational Linguistics, News Writing
Cameron, Lynne; Deignan, Alice – Applied Linguistics, 2006
We show how emergence offers new explanations for the behaviour of metaphorically-used expressions. Analysis of metaphors in two types of natural language data are combined: detailed analysis of continuous discourse, which offers wealth of context and the possibility of monitoring emergent forms as the discourse unfolds, and computer-assisted…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Semantics, Pragmatics, Language Patterns