Abstract
This study examines whether Mapping Principles, which govern how concrete concepts in a source domain are mapped to abstract concepts in a target domain, are realized in large-scale corpus data. In particular, we propose a frequency-based collocational approach to determine mapping principles based on the most productive mapping. In addition, in contrast to the target-domain-oriented method used in previous studies, we employ the source-domain-oriented method to search for lexical mappings from a particular source domain, i.e., BUILDING, to a number of target domains. The corpus data demonstrate that mapping principles exist in a source-target domain pairing. In addition, we found that different target domains select the source domain of BUILDING for different underlying reasons. Our study follows the lexical analysis of conceptual metaphors proposed by the Conceptual Mapping Model and helps us better understand how semantic networks of lexical words are represented in the lexicon via conceptual mappings.
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