Krisztián Majoros:
Metapher und Kookkurrenz. Eine alternative “Trichter”-Methode zur korpusbasierten Untersuchung metaphorischer Ausdrücke in öffentlich zugänglichen elektronischen Zeitungskorpora am Beispiel der Wissenschaftsberichterstattung im Bereich der Zellbiologie

Abstract:
The present paper investigates the role of digital corpora in current research on metaphor. Digital corpora are important data sources in linguistic research that can also enhance statistically representative achievements. I propose the so called funnel method as a semi-automatic method of metaphor analysis in corpora, which I tested on a German corpus consisting of popular scientific articles of cell biology. With the help of this method I examine the knowledge transfer function of metaphors in such a way that the collection of data is not based on introspective lists of metaphorical expressions or dictionary articles, but the source of the keywords is the corpus itself. As a result, the introspective character of the research methodology can be reduced. It has been found that in metaphorical knowledge transfer in cell biology primarily technical, industrial and information-technological metaphors play the most important role; furthermore the frequency data suggest a shift of emphasis in the direction of the computer metaphor.

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