Metaphor in corpora: a corpus-driven analysis of Applied Linguistics dissertations

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Sardinha, Tony Berber
Copyright Year	2007
Description	This study develops a methodology for finding metaphors in corpora. The procedure is based on the wish that, without a prior list of metaphors, the computer would provide a number of possible metaphor candidates. The methodology works by selecting an initial pool of word types in the corpus, finding shared collocates between pairs of those words and then computing a semantic distance measure for those word pairs which have a requisite number of mutual collocates. Cases which satisfy these criteria were then concordanced and interpreted. This methodology was applied to a corpus of MA dissertations in Applied Linguistics, completed in Brazil. The paper highlights the importance of the use of metaphors by novice Applied Linguistic researchers.
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Ending Page	35
Page Count	25
Starting Page	11
ISSN	19846398
e-ISSN	19846398
DOI	10.1590/s1984-63982007000100002
Journal	Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	7
Language	English
Publisher	FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Publisher Date	2007-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada Language Studies Linguistics Dissertations Applied Linguistics Driven Analysis Corpus Driven
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language