Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics: Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus...

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Rafael Alejo-González

Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics

Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus

Rafael Alejo-González

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Routledge
14 April 2025

linguistics; Database design & theory; Data mining; Computer science

Series: Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics

Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics: Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus offers a model for building a corpus of oral EMI seminars. It demonstrates how incorporating metaphor to the process of corpus building affords a more comprehensive description of the role of metaphor in discourse.

EMI is the specific context outlined in this volume, and as such it will be of particular interest to researchers in this area, though the design and model can be easily generalised and applied to other corpora focusing on metaphor. Alejo-González argues for the need to build such a corpus given the scarcity of corpora being tagged for metaphor as well as the shortage of those dealing with the EMI phenomenon.

This book will be of practical use and interest to those researchers of corpus linguistics or related areas looking to explore metaphor through their corpus studies.

By: Rafael Alejo-González
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032510590
ISBN 10: 1032510595
Series: Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 14 April 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Rafael Alejo-González is Associate Professor of English at the University of Extremadura, Spain.