Title: Metaphodioms: connecting metaphor and idioms
Source document: Brno studies in English. 2022, vol. 48, iss. 1, pp. 117-135
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117-135
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ISSN0524-6881 (print)1805-0867 (online)
Persistent identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/BSE2022-1-6
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.76860
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License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International
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Abstract(s)
This paper aims to formulate the notion of metaphodiom and establish operational criteria for its definition by combining key insights emanating from quantitative corpus linguistics, the cognitive theory of metaphor, and a cognitive linguistic approach to idioms. To this end, the author selects boxing idioms for analysis, extracts their occurrences in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), and determines their structural, semantic, distributional, and discourse-functional properties. The paper makes a significant contribution to a growing body of literature on metaphorical idioms by systematically integrating all definitory parameters for their identification, description, and extraction from a large corpus of naturally-occurring data.
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[20] Howarth, Peter (1998) Phraseology and second language proficiency. Applied Linguistics 19(1), 24–44.
[21] Kövecses, Zoltan (2001) A cognitive linguistic view of learning idioms in an FLT context. In: Pütz, Martin, Niemeier, Susanne and Dirven, René (eds.) Applied Cognitive Linguistics II: Language Pedagogy. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 87–115. | DOI 10.1515/9783110866254.87
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[23] Kövecses, Zoltan (2015) Where Metaphors Come from: Reconsidering Context in Metaphor. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
[24] Kövecses, Zoltan (2016) Contextual factors in metaphor creation in discourse. In: Fabiszak, Małgorzata, Krawczak, Karolina and Rokoszewska, Katarzyna (eds.) Categorization in Discourse and Grammar. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 21−32. | DOI 10.3726/978-3-653-05578-8
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[28] Kövecses, Zoltan and Szabó, Peter (1996) Idioms: A view from cognitive linguistics. Applied Linguistics 17(3), 326−355.
[29] Lakoff, George (1987) Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
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