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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents; Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy; Metaphoricity is gradable*; A corpus-based study of metaphors for speech activity in British English; Words and their metaphors: A corpus-based approach; The grammar of linguistic metaphors; Keeping an eye on the data: Metonymies and their patterns*; Metonymic proper names: A corpus-based account; On groutnolls and nog-heads: A case study of the interaction between culture and cognition in intelligence metaphors; Sense and sensibility: Rational thought versus emotion in metaphorical language*
Deals with the issue of how corpus data relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have typically investigated with respect to conceptual mappings. This volume investigates a range of issues - the coherence and function of particular metaphorical models, the interaction of form and meaning, the priming of metaphors, and more
