Metaphor in Specialist Discourse.

Metaphor in Specialist Discourse -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgment -- Preface -- Section I. Introduction -- Metaphor in specialist discourse: Investigating metaphor use in specific and popularized discourse contexts -- 1. Idea for the book -- 2. Theoretical framework and methodologies -- 3. Overview -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Section II. Metaphor variation in specialist discourse -- Register variation and metaphor use: A multi-dimensional perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The multi-feature multi-dimensional approach -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Corpus -- 3.2 Metaphor identification -- 3.3 Tagging -- 3.4 Variables -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Question 1: Relationship between metaphor and previous dimensions of variation -- 4.2 Question 2: Dimensions of variation -- 4.3 Question 3: Significance of register distinctions -- 4.4 Question 4: Cutting across register differences -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Metaphors in psychology genres: Counseling vs. academic lectures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The corpora -- 2.1 The counseling corpus -- 2.2 The academic lecture corpus -- 3. Method -- 3.1 The target domains -- 3.2 Identification of linguistic metaphors -- 3.3 Grouping metaphorical expressions and formulating conceptual metaphors -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Love metaphors -- 4.2 anger metaphors -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Section III. Metaphor in specific contexts -- Payback and punishment: Figurative language in Scottish penal policy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context of the present analysis -- 3. Method -- 4. Findings from automatic frequency analysis -- 4.1 Most frequent figuratively-used lexical words -- 4.2 Payback -- 5. Findings from manual analysis -- 5.1 Deliver -- 5.2 Manage, management -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement.

References -- They have to die for the goals: War metaphors in English and German football radio commentary -- 1. Football - A popularised specialist discourse domain -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1 Metaphor identification -- 2.2 Quantitative analysis -- 2.3 Qualitative analysis -- 3. Corpus design -- 3.1 Why radio commentaries? -- 3.2 Compilation of the corpus -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Quantitative analysis -- 4.2 Qualitative analysis -- 5. Comparison -- 6. Specialist terms, specialist metaphor -- References -- The production line as a context for low metaphoricity: Exploring links between gestures, iconicity, and artefacts on a factory shop floor -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Gestures, metonymy, and metaphor -- 1.2 The relationship between metaphor and metonymy -- 2. The salmon factory -- 3. Methods -- 4. Types of gestures at the salmon factory -- 4.1 Conversational gesturing -- 4.2 Technical gesturing -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Gesture, metaphor, and language -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Section IV. Metaphor in science writing -- High on metaphor, low on simile? An examination of metaphor type in sub-registers of academic prose -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metaphor types -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Materials -- 3.2 Resources -- 3.3 Procedure -- 3.4 Reliability -- 3.5 Protocol -- 4. Analyses and discussion -- 4.1 Bulk analysis of relation to metaphor across academic sub-registers -- 4.2 Analysis of metaphor type across academic sub-registers -- 4.3 Humanities &amp -- arts -- 4.4 Social Science -- 4.5 Natural Sciences -- 4.6 Politics, law, and education -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- A mere metaphor? Framings of the concept of metaphor in biological specialist communication -- 1. Conflicting frames of biological metaphor: An example -- 2. Metaphor as a heckler at the back, a Trojan horse or sonorous harmonics.

3. Analyzing scientific metaphor: Method and material -- 4. Analysis: Framing metaphor -- 4.1 Frame no 1: Metaphor as inferior and commonsensical knowledge -- 4.2 Frame no 2: Metaphor as a visualization tool within scientific discourse -- 4.3 Frame no 3: Metaphor for communicating science outside scientific discourse -- 4.4 Frame no 4: Metaphors as pre-theoretical heuristic devices or hypotheses -- 4.5 Frame no 5: Metaphor as a general frame of reference/scientific-ideological perspective -- 5. Conclusion: Rhetorical de- and re-metaphorization -- References -- Dynamical systems metaphors -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Further history of the development of dynamical systems analysis -- 1.2 Purposes of this chapter -- 2. Study of metaphors describing dynamical systems in six fields -- 2.1 Method -- 2.2 Results -- 3. Discussion and conclusion -- 3.1 The conceptual metaphors used -- 3.2 Innovative or novel metaphors -- 3.3 Specialized sub-mappings fine-tune the metaphors -- 3.4 Linkages among sub-mappings -- 3.5 Adequacy of metaphors and epistemic mystification -- 3.6 Conclusions and suggestions for better use of metaphor -- References -- Section V. Metaphor and popularization -- Metaphor, news discourse and knowledge -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical framework -- 3. Materials and methods -- 3.1 The corpus -- 3.2 The target domains -- 3.3 Metaphor identification -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Aetiology -- 4.2 Processes -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Metaphor as tools of enrolment: A case study exploration of the policy press release genre in regards to the Alberta SuperNet -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background notes to the initiative under investigation -- 3. Method -- 4. Findings -- 4.1 Supernet as a person/super-human -- 4.2 Supernet as a highway/transportation -- 4.3 Technology policymaking as a competition -- 5. Significance.

5.1 supernet as a person/super-human -- 5.2 supernet as a highway/transportation -- 5.3 technology policymaking as a competition -- 6. Summary and concluding remarks -- References -- Appendix -- Section VI. Conclusion -- Metaphor in specialist discourse: Insights and implications for metaphor studies and beyond -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Where this volume has taken us -- 3. Issues remaining -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Index.

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