A Corpus-based Study of Metaphor in<i>Pavilion of Women</i>

Zhao, Xianbo; Yan, Han; Zhao, Xincheng

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“…Most of these past works of literature (e.g., Afrashi & Ghouchani, 2018;Dodge, 2016;Gandomkar, 2019;Güldenring, 2017;Herteg, 2019;Potts & Semino, 2017;Raffaelli & Katunar, 2016;Semino, Demjen, & Demmen, 2018;Zhao, Han, & Zhao, 2019) employed Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) in their studies. Some studies used the CMT and paired it with other theories, such as Naicker (2017), who analyzed an ancient Hindu scriptural lore using the CMT and the theory in Cognitive Linguistics.…”

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“…For instance, Luo (2018) investigated the Chinese TALK metaphors in the Center for Chinese Linguistics (CCL) Corpus. Meanwhile, Zhao, Han, and Zhao (2019) examined the metaphors used in 'Pavilion of Women', a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck, and their relationship with Chinese Yin-Yang semiotics and the author's experiences in China.…”

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Corpus-based Studies of Metaphor: An Overview

Malik¹,

Shak²,

Mohamad³

et al. 2022

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The researchers performed this systematic review to offer insights into the trend of the corpus-based approach in studying metaphor in recent years and investigate the potential gaps and under-researched areas in the past literature on the topic. Two research databases, namely Google Scholar and Academics, were explored to collect data. The analysis of metaphor-related research studies published between 2015 and 2020 revealed more than 78 studies dealing with the topic of investigation. After the screening process, 23 studies that met the research criteria were retained for analysis. The selected articles were further analyzed using the two-step analysis involving quantitative and qualitative approaches, i.e., descriptive statistics, and thematic analysis. The findings revealed that metaphor studies employing the corpus approach tend to use existing corpus like the Reference Corpus instead of a specialized corpus. In addition, metaphor studies in this review centered more on written discourse than spoken data. Furthermore, there is also a lack of information on the corpus tool employed in the examined studies. Meanwhile, the thematic analysis unearthed potential gaps and under-researched areas, such as limited studies on COVID-19 metaphor even though the outbreak had started at the end of 2019. Future studies on this research could include more specialized corpora, specifically in the under-researched topics, to fill in the gaps in this area of study

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Corpus-based Studies of Metaphor: An Overview

Malik¹,

Shak²,

Mohamad³

et al. 2022

AWEJ

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HEART metaphors in economic discourse corpora: conceptual evidence and translation insight

Almaghlouth,

Alotaibi

2024

Cogent Arts & Humanities

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A Cognitive-Semiotic Construal of Metaphor in Discourse

Zhao

Rong

Zhao

2020

Chinese Semiotic Studies

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Cognitive semiotics is a new field for the study of meaning in trans-disciplines, such as semiotics, cognitive linguistics, and corpus linguistics. This paper aims at studying how cognitive semiotics is employed to construe conceptual metaphors in discourse. We conducted a corpus-based study, with Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and Fauconnier and Turner’s Blending Theory (BT), to illustrate our cognitive-semiotic model for metaphors in Dragon Seed, written by Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck. The major finding is that metaphors are mental constructions involving many spaces and mappings in the cognitive-semiotic network. These integration networks are related to encoders’ cognitive, cultural, and social contexts. Additionally, cognitive semiotics can be employed to construe conceptual metaphors in discourse vividly and comprehensively and thus is helpful to reveal the ideology and the theme of the discourse.

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A Corpus-based Study of Metaphor inPavilion of Women

Cited by 5 publications

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Corpus-based Studies of Metaphor: An Overview

Corpus-based Studies of Metaphor: An Overview

HEART metaphors in economic discourse corpora: conceptual evidence and translation insight

A Cognitive-Semiotic Construal of Metaphor in Discourse

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