Metaphor is recognised as an important way of thinking -
constructing analogies and making connections between ideas - and
an important way of using language - to explain abstract ideas or
to find indirect but powerful ways of conveying feelings. By
investigating people's use of metaphors, we can better understand
their emotions, attitudes and conceptualisations, as individuals
and as participants in social life. This book describes practice in
the analysis of metaphor in real-world discourse. When real-world
language use is taken as the site of metaphor study, researchers
face methodological issues that have only recently begun to be
addressed. The contributors to this volume have all had to find
ways to deal with methodological issues in their own research and
have developed techniques that are brought together here. Using as
a basis the discourse dynamics approach to metaphor developed by
the editor, the book explores links between theory and empirical
investigation, exemplifies data analysis and discusses issues in
research design and practice. Particular attention is paid to the
processes of metaphor identification, categorisation and labelling,
and to the use of corpus linguistic and other computer-assisted
methods.
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