... use ofa new framework for metaphorical analysis This can be seen as an attempt to potentially extend and triangulate intuition -based manual analysis and the concordancing of pre-selected search ... University of Maryland in terms of transparency The Guardian was awarded the National Newspaper of the Year in 1999, 2006 and 2011 by the British Press Awards in addition to garnering the accolade as ... time-consuming than a purely manual analysis” (p.11) Finally, this thesis also aims to add to a growing body of research on metaphor in actual contexts of use in a genrespecific comparative study 1.3 Background:...
... view of language where the social and cognitive aspects are integral to formulation of theory and the analysis of data Such an approach foregrounds the salience of temporal and contextual factors ... that are often the result of specific contextual/experiential factors Thus, with this awareness in mind, an accurate metaphor analysis can be accomplished through an amalgamation ofa topdown and ... “variability in intuitions” and the “lack of precision” that has plagued traditional metaphor analysis so far (p.2) The use of corpus- based dictionaries and large, representative corpora are also...
... iterations), a systematic analysis of the range of conceptual metaphors and their relevant interconnections can be obtained A deeper analysis of the relevant contexts and ideas can be achieved through an ... key advantage of this diagrammatical approach lies in the way the analyst has to take into account the holistic socio-political and cultural contexts in order to account for the resultant metaphorical ... Orientational/Spatial Metaphors and Image/Analogybased Metaphors (See Section 3.3.4) The overall distribution of the metaphor categories and the associated metaphors are captured in Table 3.4 120 Table...
... research is based on corpus data or found data rather than elicited data Oster (2010) also justifies the use of the lexical unit as a springboard for the analysis in a large representative corpus ... resultant range of metaphors that seem to lack a coherent hierarchical structure Hence, an adaptation of Grady, Taub & Morgan’s (1996) proposed diagrammatic representations of metaphors will enable ... online concordancing platforms will then be classified diagrammatically into four separate metaphor categories This will be done in accordance to a classification that amalgamates Lakoff and Johnson...
... metaphorical usage patterns and scenarios appear to be dominant across a large representative corpus 171 4.4.9 A Comparative Analysis: The Power of Political Affiliations in the Portrayal of ... indicate that the WPcorpus advocates a more balanced view of BP with a non-sympathetic portrayal taking up a significantly lower 22.8% of the identified metaphors and a sympathetic portrayal of ... INDUSTRY IS A VICTIM THE OIL IS A STEALTHY ENEMY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS A WAR GENERAL 39 POLITICS ISA GAME OF STRATEGY (WAR) THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS A SHREWED POLITICAL TACTICIAN 5 178...
... portrayal of the US Government/ Obama Administration’s role in the disaster It also predominantly adopts a pragmatic approach that conceptualises the notion of BUSINESS as a WAR/ STRATEGY/ GAME OF ... Corporation (a US -based oil and gas exploration and production company), Transocean Ltd (a Swissbased offshore drilling contractor), Mitsui Oil Exploration Company (a Japanbased oil exploration ... metaphorical evaluations can reveal the subtle influences that political affiliation and cultural perspectives have on the target discourse For the metaphorical analysis of the Guardian, acorpus of...
... perceptions and behaviour, advocating a critical approach to the studyof metaphors in discourse Finally, it is also important to note that modern consumers of news texts are assailed by a gamut of alternative ... with a generic system of shared values and metaphorical evaluations It is these particular sets of metaphorical evaluations and group ideologies that result in the potential socio-economic manipulation ... that facilitate interaction with a range of viewpoints, online broadsheets with an interactive comments function) This clearly goes to show how our values and what we actually perceive are fashioned...
... broad advantages in the area of metaphorical analysis: The efficiency of analysis by organising the dominant range of conceptual metaphors into a coherent relational framework The facilitation of ... detailed analysis of the range of analogy -based metaphors across the target semantic domains indicates the presence ofa clear unifying ideological thread across all four broadsheets This clearly ... metaphorical evaluative threads involving the use ofa series of landmark disasters (ranging from Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 to other significant nuclear, man-made or large-scale natural disasters)...
... sociocultural and intuitive responses to language However, the main aim of this thesis is the formulation ofa repeatable method that strikes an adequate balance between semi-automated and manual analysis ... attacks or Hurricane Katrina as a parallel to the catastrophe A detailed exposition of these metaphorical evaluations can be seen in Chapter However, the dimension of intra-cultural bias is also ... Hence, a longitudinal approach to the studyof the metaphors from the same issue across a range of different domains (scientific journals, literary references, organization and management manuals and...
... WITH AN ADVANCING VEHICLE ANALOGY -BASED METAPHORS ORIENTATIONAL/SPATIAL METAPHORS THE SHARE PRICE IS A STRUCTURE/ MEDIA CRITICISM BAD IS BIG (SCALE) STRUCTURAL METAPHORS (X IS Y) IS A TIDAL WAVE ... REPUBLICAN+TERITORY+IS+ENEMY+TERRITORY+ IS A NATURAL THE OIL INTERNATIONAL+RELATIONS+IS +A+ FRAGILE+ENTITY+ THE+US+ GOOD IS FORWARD DISASTER INDUSTRY IS A POLITICS+IS +A+ GAME +OF+ STRATEGY+ GOVERNMENT/+ WAR ZONE OBAMA+ ADMINISTRATION++ ... THE+OBAMA+ADMINISTRATION+IS +A+ WEAK+WAR+ THE GULF IS +A/ AN:++ GENERAL/+POLITICAL+STRATEGIST+ THE OIL IS THE ENEMY COMMUNITY INCOMPETENT+ + THE OIL SPILL IS A IS AVICTIM THE BRITISH ARE LAW+ENFORCER/+...
... SCoRE approach, a corpus- based integrated approach to classroom discourse in terms of developing a computerized corpusof classroom data with an accompanying suite of analytical software tools that ... register analyses in their early days were constrained by the fact that any manual processing and analysis of data was seen as an impossible task, but with the availability of computers and a variety ... of classroom data incorporating classroom audio and video recordings, written artefacts, and observation coding data Such data can be analytically examined using a suite of software tools drawn...
... At the same time, there have been a large number of different software programs installed for keywords and collocations extract from corpus data Such software packages have made easier access ... acceptable collocation in one language may be unacceptable in another Take the case of eat in English and ăn (eat) in Vietnamese as a typical example Although these two words are equivalent to each ... from a linguistic analysis ofa substantial number of written articles The corpusof the study is constructed from 15 extracted articles from four databases III.1.1.1 Database The database in...
... At the same time, there have been a large number of different software programs installed for keywords and collocations extract from corpus data Such software packages have made easier access ... for Advanced Learners Mac Millian Press Ltd Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Web documents and sites Amelia Maria Cava (2011) A corpus- based approach to research article abstracts.Retrieved ... piece of natural spoken and written English is totally free of collocations Because of their widespread use, the role that collocations play in the language is absolutely undeniable For learners of...
... notion that patterns of collocation can form the basis for a lexical analysis of language alternative to, and independent of, the grammatical analysis They regarded the two levels of analysis as being ... research offers a collocation analysis of several keywords in a specialized corpus, it also points out the practical application ofcorpus linguistics in the teaching and learning of collocations ... extracted textsA detailed referencing of each selected text can be found in Appendix Table 1: List of the selected articles Database Information of the Articles Average Text (Author, Date of publication,...
... with a standardized list of reasons to choose from, and health literacy may have affected the accuracy of these data Our study was cross-sectional in nature and does not allow for proper evaluation ... Disability and health-care use Med Care 1996, 34:924-930 Jason LA, Richman JA, Rademaker AW, Jordan KM, Plioplys AV, Taylor R, et al.: A community -based studyof chronic fatigue syndrome Archives of ... forms of major depression and childhood trauma Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2003, 100:14293-14296 Furu K, Straume B: Use of antiacids in a general population: the impact of health-related variables,...
... with a standardized list of reasons to choose from, and health literacy may have affected the accuracy of these data Our study was cross-sectional in nature and does not allow for proper evaluation ... Disability and health-care use Med Care 1996, 34:924-930 Jason LA, Richman JA, Rademaker AW, Jordan KM, Plioplys AV, Taylor R, et al.: A community -based studyof chronic fatigue syndrome Archives of ... forms of major depression and childhood trauma Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2003, 100:14293-14296 Furu K, Straume B: Use of antiacids in a general population: the impact of health-related variables,...
... quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques Corpus linguistics and Discourse analysis Corpus- based approach is found to be of great value since it can be applied to a number of areas of ... corpus- based analysis of the collocates of the word “homeland” The data for the analysis were taken from two popular corpora which are Corpusof Contemporary American English and Time Magazine Corpus ... use ofa language feature, for example, analyzing the factors that affect the omission or retention of that in complement clauses; examining the realizations ofa particular function of language,...
... ratio (SNR) than array CGH (compare log ratio for CGH and SNP arrays); however, SNP arrays offer an additional metric that enables a more comprehensive assignment of copy number than does array ... SM*, Ku CS*#, Naidoo N, Hall P, Chia KS, Salim A, Pawitan Y A population -based studyof copy number variants and regions of homozygosity in healthy Swedish individuals Journal of Human Genetics ... under the umbrella of structural variations48 It is important to note that these classifications are based primarily on patterns of changes in DNA sequence and an arbitrary definition of size There...
... Dutch (Baayen and Plag 2009), Italian (Gaeta 2008) and Bulgarian (Manova 2010) It is an open question that whether the Parsability Hypothesis can provide an explanatorily adequate analysis of word ... than ‘azuki bean’ or ‘Vigna angularis’ as it does as before Therefore, AOR are semantically like based and not phrasal-level 4.2.2 A categorical frequency based account I propose a frequency based ... I propose a categorical frequency based account of AOR in Chinese [A [A N]] 4.2.1 A phrasal syntax based account of AOR I have shown that the Parsability Hypothesis cannot predict an order in...