Rafael Alejo-González

Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics

Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9781032510590
• ISBN-10: 1032510595
• Artikelnr.: 73495948

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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