A Corpus-based Study of Textual Metaphor in English

He, Qingshun; Wen, Binli

doi:10.1080/07268602.2017.1298393

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“…As illustrated in Figure 2, most of the literature analyzed existing corpus as 39% of the past studies examined data taken from existing reference corpus or corpus database. For example, He and Wen (2017) analyzed the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), and the British National Corpus (BNC). Meanwhile, Potts and Semino (2019) examined the British National Corpus (BNC), the Corpus of Contemporary American English, and an ad hoc corpus of reportage collected from Nexis (1 June-1July 2017).…”

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“…Apart from the CMT and the CMA, the theory of Grammatical Metaphor was employed in two past studies. It was used in He and Yang's (2017) study that examined text technicality and ideational metaphor and in He and Wen's (2017) study that investigated grammatical and textual metaphor. Finally, Luo (2018) Meanwhile, another 26.1% (N = 6) of the studies did not employ any grand or middlerange theory, as shown in Figure 4.…”

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“…They found three metaphor signal categories through the analysis, i.e., copular similes, verbal processes, and modals/conditionals. Meanwhile, He and Wen (2017) investigated the diachronic and genre distributions of two types of textual metaphor identified. These types are conventionalization of conjunctive adverbial groups and pre-positionalization of hypotactic conjunction groups.…”

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Corpus-based Studies of Metaphor: An Overview

Malik¹,

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Mohamad³

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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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“…The logico-semantic relation between the two independent clauses in (1a) is realized as the conjunctive adverb however, and that between the two clauses of the clause complex in (1b) is realized as the paratactic conjunction but. According to and He and Wen (2017), conjunctive adverbs have the potential to shift to paratactic conjunctions, creating grammatical metaphor. This type of grammatical metaphor shifts the cohesion domain to the logical domain, and hence is categorized as textual metaphor.…”

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This article conducted a corpus-based study on the discipline distributions of two types of textual metaphor identified by and He and Wen (2017), conjunctionalization of conjunctive adverbs and zero conjunctionalization of hypotactic conjunctions. It is found that conjunctionalization of conjunctive adverbs is more prevalent in soft science texts than in hard science texts and zero conjunctionalization of hypotactic conjunctions is similarly distributed in hard science texts and in soft science texts.

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A Corpus‐based Study of Textual Metaphor in English Academic Writing

2021

Studia Linguistica

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This article conducted a corpus‐based study on the discipline distributions of two types of textual metaphor identified by He et al. (2015) and He and Wen (2017), conjunctionalization of conjunctive adverbs and zero conjunctionalization of hypotactic conjunctions. It is found that conjunctionalization of conjunctive adverbs is more prevalent in soft science texts than in hard science texts and zero conjunctionalization of hypotactic conjunctions is similarly distributed in hard science texts and in soft science texts. However, conjunctionalization of conjunctive adverbs is more prevalent in native English linguistics texts than in EFL Chinese linguistics texts while zero conjunctionalization of hypotactic conjunctions dominates in EFL Chinese linguistics texts because of the relatively lower frequency of hypotactic clause complexes in EFL Chinese linguistics texts. Textual metaphor functions to increase the grammatical intricacy of text and hence is not a characteristic feature of scientific writing. It is hereby concluded that EFL Chinese linguists do not write as technical texts as native English linguists.

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A Systemic Functional Approach to Clause Combining in English

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A Corpus-Based Approach to Clause Combining in English From the Systemic Functional Perspective

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A Corpus-based Study of Textual Metaphor in English

Cited by 36 publications

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Corpus-based Studies of Metaphor: An Overview

Corpus-based Studies of Metaphor: An Overview

A Corpus‐based Study of Textual Metaphor in English Academic Writing

A Systemic Functional Approach to Clause Combining in English

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