Abstract
The significance of Patterson's work Understanding Metaphor Through Corpora: A Case Study of Metaphors in Nineteenth Century Writing is that only through corpus linguistics have we been able to apply real empirical evidence to our arguments of what metaphor is. By demonstrating that metaphor is supposed to be approached from a linguistic perspective along with a psycholinguistic one, Patterson succeeds in drawing readers' attention to the efficacy and the benefits of combining corpus linguistic methodology with the theory of lexical priming. Thus, the volume is an essential reader for students and researchers in corpus linguistics, metaphor studies, lexicography, semantics, and pragmatics.
Highlights
For many years, metaphor research has mostly followed the traditional literal-metaphorical dichotomy to identify metaphors
The research on metaphor in the past ten years has shown that there exists no clear-cut boundary between metaphorical language and literal language since both operate along a cline or continuum, that metaphorical language is more common than literal language in terms of linguistic manifestations and functions
What makes this work engaging and pertinent is its holistic approach to the study of metaphor, focusing on both quantitative and qualitative methods, while integrating a corpus linguistic approach to explore the lexical, grammatical, semantic and pragmatic characteristics of metaphoric instances of language
Summary
Metaphor research has mostly followed the traditional literal-metaphorical dichotomy to identify metaphors. Corpus-based researches on metaphor, in most cases, rely on quantitative methods and empirical evidence, focusing on frequencies, forms and functions of metaphorical language (Deignan, 2005; Steen et al, 2010; Davies, 2012; Skorczynska, 2010; Semino et al, 2017). How to integrate quantitative and qualitative methods to make a systematic exploration on the lexical, grammatical, semantic and pragmatic features of metaphorical language instances in a corpus-based metaphor research? What makes this work engaging and pertinent is its holistic approach to the study of metaphor, focusing on both quantitative and qualitative methods, while integrating a corpus linguistic approach to explore the lexical, grammatical, semantic and pragmatic characteristics of metaphoric instances of language
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