Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages

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MIPVU around the world

Nacey Susan Nacey(Editor)

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Intro
Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Chapter 1. MIPVU in multiple languages
1.1 Why MIPVU in multiple languages?
1.2 Methods for linguistic metaphor identification
1.2.1 The development of MIP and MIPVU
1.2.2 MIP vs. MIPVU
1.2.3 Other methods for linguistic metaphor identification
1.3 Perspectives on the past, present and future of linguistic metaphor identification: An interview with Gerard Steen
1.4 How to read this volume
1.5 MIPVU in multiple languages
References
Chapter 2. MIPVU: A manual for identifying metaphor-related words
2.1 The basic procedure
2.2 Deciding about words: Lexical units
2.2.1 General guideline
2.2.2 Exceptions
2.3 Indirect use potentially explained by cross-domain mapping
2.3.1 Identifying contextual meanings
2.3.2 Deciding about more basic meanings
2.3.3 Deciding about sufficient distinctness
2.3.4 Deciding about the role of similarity
2.4 Direct use potentially explained by cross-domain mapping
2.5 Implicit meaning potentially explained by cross-domain mapping
2.6 Signals of potential cross-domain mappings
2.7 New formations and parts that may be potentially explained by cross-domain mapping
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 3. What the MIPVU protocol doesn't tell you (even though it mostly does)
3.1 Introduction
Part 1: Practicalities of MIPVU
3.2 How do I determine what comprises a lexical unit?
3.3 How do I determine a 'more basic meaning' of a lexical unit?
3.3.1 The 'it feels basic to me' pitfall
3.3.2 The 'but there has to be a single basic meaning' pitfall
3.3.3 The 'no contextual meaning' pitfall
3.3.4 The 'grammatical category / word class' pitfall
3.4 How do I go about contrasting and comparing meanings?
3.5 Which tools should I use to annotate my dataset?
3.5.1 Initial independent MIPVU analysis
3.5.2 Further comparative MIPVU analysis
3.5.3 Statistical analysis of MIPVU results
3.6 Reliability testing
Part 2: Choosing your approach and your data
3.7 Decision 1: Quantitative, qualitative, or both?
3.8 Decision 2: Which (elements in) texts and why?
3.9 Concluding thoughts
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 4. Linguistic metaphor identification in French
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Linguistic metaphor identification in French
4.2.1 Idiosyncratic features of French that may affect metaphor identification by means of MIPVU
4.2.2 Prepositions à and de, and contracted forms
4.2.3 Turning MIP into PIM: Guidelines for applying MIPVU to French
4.2.4 PIM in practice: Identifying metaphor in French
4.3 Some consequences of using one dictionary (and not another) for metaphor identification (in French)
4.3.1 Data and dictionaries
4.3.2 Results: Comparing agreement between the two dictionaries
4.3.3 The qualitative perspective: Some clear differences between the two dictionaries
4.3.4 Some final thoughts about choosing and using a dictionary for metaphor identification in French
4.4 Concluding remarks
References
Dictionaries used
Chapter 5. Linguistic metaphor identification in Dutch
5.1 Introduction: Metaphor in Dutch discourse
5.2 Operational issues
5.2.1 The corpus: News and conversation
5.2.2 Van dale dictionary and its implications
5.3 Linguistic issues: Complex words and fixed expressions
5.3.1 Separable complex verbs
5.3.2 Polywords
5.4 Dutch metaphor analysis: Agreement and disagreement
5.4.1 Dutch discourse and agreement
5.4.2 Dutch discourse and disagreement
5.5 Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 6. Linguistic metaphor identification in German
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Language-specific issues
6.3 Operational issues
6.3.1 The data
6.3.2 Part-of-Speech tagging
6.3.3 Lexicographic resources
6.4 The guidelines
6.4.1 Demarcation of lexical units
6.4.2 Non-autonomous sense descriptions
6.4.3 Deciding about distinctness of word meanings
6.5 Reliability
6.5.1 Lexical units
6.6 Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 7. Linguistic metaphor identification in Scandinavian
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Lexico-grammatical features of Scandinavian
7.3 Procedural issues
7.3.1 Dictionaries
7.3.2 Lexical units
7.4 Scandinavian MIPVU in a nutshell
7.5 Application of Scandinavian MIPVU
7.6 Reliability results
7.6.1 Demarcation of lexical units
7.6.2 Identification of metaphor-related words
7.7 Concluding remarks
References
Chapter 8. Linguistic metaphor identification in Lithuanian
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Operational challenges: Lithuanian dictionaries
8.2.1 Dictionaries and corpus of Lithuanian
8.2.2 Cross-referencing
8.2.3 Absence of senses
8.2.4 Obsolete or dialectal basic senses
8.2.5 Conflated concrete and abstract senses
8.3 Challenges to MIPVU application in Lithuanian: Grammatical cases and derivational morphology
8.4 Illustrations of MIPVU application in Lithuanian
8.4.1 Two cases of straightforward application of MIPVU
8.4.2 Grammatical case: From non-metaphorical to metaphorical
8.4.3 Potential metaphoricity of derivational affixes and the reflexive particle
8.5 Concluding remarks: Possible adjustments of MIPVU to Lithuanian
8.6 Reliability tests
References
Chapter 9. Linguistic metaphor identification in Polish
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Data collection and coding
9.3 Linguistic issues
9.3.1 Demarcation of lexical units: Unitization
9.3.2 Establishing the basic and contextual sense: Itemization
9.3.3 Metaphor and declination
9.3.4 Metaphor categorisation: Direct, indirect and implicit metaphors
9.4 Sample analysis
9.5 Applying MIPVU to Polish: Reliability measures
9.6 MIPVU for Polish: Final guidelines and conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 10. Linguistic metaphor identification in Serbian
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Relevant lexico-grammatical properties of Serbian: Inflectional morphology and case
10.3 Operational issues
10.3.1 Data
10.3.2 Procedure
10.3.3 Selection and use of dictionary
10.4 Unit demarcation and contextual/basic meaning identification
10.4.1 Determining lexical units
10.4.2 Contextual and basic meaning identification
10.5 Case-encoded metaphoricity
10.5.1 Solutions
10.6 Sample analysis
10.6.1 An overview in numbers
10.6.2 Case-encoded metaphor
10.7 Conclusions
Acknowledgment
References
Sources
Chapter 11. Linguistic metaphor identification in Uzbek
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Operational issues
11.2.1 Data collection
11.2.2 Dictionary use
11.3 Linguistic issues
11.3.1 Locative, dative and ablative cases
11.3.2 Compound verbs
11.4 Sample analyses
11.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 12. Linguistic metaphor identification in Chinese
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Operationalisation issues
12.2.1 Data of this study
12.2.2 Choice of lexical tools
12.2.3 Use of lexical tools
12.3 Linguistic issues
12.3.1 Demarcation of lexical units in Chinese texts
12.3.2 Chinese-specific types of lexical units
12.4 Annotation categories
12.4.1 Indirect metaphor
12.4.2 Direct metaphor
12.4.3 Implicit metaphor
12.4.4 Borderline cases
12.5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 13. Linguistic metaphor identification in Sesotho
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Operationalization
13.2.1 The Sesotho dictionaries
13.2.2 The use of SED and Macmillan
13.3 Demarcation of lexical units
13.3.1 The orthographic word
13.3.2 Multiword expressions and compounds
13.3.3 The first person singular object marker n- and the reflexive marker i-
13.3.4 The locative case marker -ng
13.3.5 The affixes ra- and ma-
13.4 Further linguistic characteristics of Sesotho that affect the use of MIPVU
13.4.1 Verb extensions
13.4.2 The diminutive marker, the augmentative marker, and reduplication
13.5 MIPVU adjusted for Sesotho
13.6 Sample analysis
13.7 Conclusion
References
Chapter 14. Linguistic metaphor identification in English as a lingua franca
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Metaphor in English as (academic) lingua franca: Problems and challenges
14.3 The European corpus of academic talk (EuroCoAT)
14.4 Lexical units
14.5 Contextual meanings
14.6 More basic meanings
14.7 Deciding on metaphorical meanings
14.8 Application of the modifications to MIPVU: Mark-up system and the search for coherence
14.9 Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 15. Afterword: Some reflections on MIPVU across languages
15.1 Introduction: Counting metaphors without an identification procedure
15.2 MIP, MIPVU and English
15.3 MIPVU in languages other than English: The contribution of this book
15.3.1 Problems with lexical units
15.3.2 Problems with dictionaries
15.4 Concluding caveats, and looking ahead
References
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