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Metaphors we read by: Finding metaphorical conceptualizations of reading in web 2.0 book reviews
- Author(s):
- Herrmann Berenike, Thomas C. Messerli (see profile)
- Date:
- 2020
- Group(s):
- Digital Humanists
- Subject(s):
- Corpora (Linguistics), Digital humanities, Metaphor
- Item Type:
- Conference paper
- Conf. Title:
- DH2020 Conference
- Conf. Org.:
- The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
- Conf. Loc.:
- online
- Conf. Date:
- July 19–24, 2020
- Tag(s):
- Cultural analytics, metaphor identification, social reading, Corpus linguistics, Theory of metaphor
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/th7s-4742
- Abstract:
- While interdisciplinary research on metaphor is abundant (Eggs, 2000; Semino & Demjén, 2017; Veale et al., 2016), it is still scarce in Digital Humanities. At the intersection of literary studies, corpus stylistics, and digital humanities, we present an exploratory quantitative metaphor analysis of a corpus of German language lay book reviews. Using a deliberately simple methodological approach that operates on seed words for conceptual sources and targets we investigate how reading experiences of literary texts are metaphorically presented by reviewers. We explore a corpus of approx. 1.3 mill. book reviews for metaphors used to conceptualize the target domain READING EXPERIENCE. In line with conceptual metaphor theory, metaphors in language are understood as closely linked to human thought processes and experiences (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, pp. 4–6; Shutova, 2017). They are mappings from typically more basic experiential source domains (LIFE) to more abstract target domains (READING EXPERIENCE), indicated by indirectly used lexis (the words come, end, and road in “we've come to the end of our road”, VUAMC, Steen et al., 2010). Starting from findings on literature reviews in English (Stockwell, 2009; Nuttall & Harrison, 2018) and on reviews in German (Köhler, 1999), we analyze metaphor patterns in social reading networks, with a particular focus on the mapping READING EXPERIENCE IS MOTION. The main aim at this stage is to draw up a first typology of mappings.
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- Status:
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- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
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