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A corpus-based study of metaphor signaling variations in three genres
2015
Text & Talk
AbstractThis study examines the use of words and phrases that signal metaphors in three genres in order to further examine the corpus-based evidence for signaling variation mentioned in previous research. While previous studies have focused on pragmatic functions, discourse functions, and the level of conventionalization, this study demonstrates that the communicative goals within each genre underlie the reasons for the metaphor signaling. Three corpora of approximately 600,000 words were
doi:10.1515/text-2015-0007
fatcat:supf6et3svafbcibiuqbizuype