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A method for linguistic metaphor identification : from MIP to MIPVU /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Steen, Gerard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2010]
Series:Converging evidence in language and communication research ; v. 14.
Subjects:
Metaphor.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Linguistic metaphor identification in usage
  • MIPVU: a manual for identifying metaphor-related words
  • Metaphor identification in news texts
  • Metaphor identification in conversation
  • Metaphor identification in fiction
  • Metaphor identification in academic discourse
  • Metaphor identification in Dutch news and conversations
  • Reliability tests
  • From method to research: cleaning up our act
  • Metaphor in English discourse: a corpus-linguistic approach
  • The quality of evidence: from MIP to MIPVU
  • Appendix
  • Overview of annotated files from BNC-baby
  • References
  • Index.