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Book Review: Understanding Metaphor Through Corpora: A Case Study of Metaphors in Nineteenth Century Writing

Book Review: Understanding Metaphor Through Corpora: A Case Study of Metaphors in Nineteenth Century Writing

Yanwei Wang
Copyright: © 2021 |Volume: 3 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 6
ISSN: 2575-6974|EISSN: 2575-6982|EISBN13: 9781799863250|DOI: 10.4018/IJTIAL.20210701.oa5
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Wang, Yanwei. "Book Review: Understanding Metaphor Through Corpora: A Case Study of Metaphors in Nineteenth Century Writing." IJTIAL vol.3, no.2 2021: pp.51-56. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJTIAL.20210701.oa5

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Wang, Y. (2021). Book Review: Understanding Metaphor Through Corpora: A Case Study of Metaphors in Nineteenth Century Writing. International Journal of Translation, Interpretation, and Applied Linguistics (IJTIAL), 3(2), 51-56. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJTIAL.20210701.oa5

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Wang, Yanwei. "Book Review: Understanding Metaphor Through Corpora: A Case Study of Metaphors in Nineteenth Century Writing," International Journal of Translation, Interpretation, and Applied Linguistics (IJTIAL) 3, no.2: 51-56. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJTIAL.20210701.oa5

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Abstract

The significance of Patterson's work Understanding Metaphor Through Corpora: A Case Study of Metaphors in Nineteenth Century Writing is that only through corpus linguistics have we been able to apply real empirical evidence to our arguments of what metaphor is. By demonstrating that metaphor is supposed to be approached from a linguistic perspective along with a psycholinguistic one, Patterson succeeds in drawing readers' attention to the efficacy and the benefits of combining corpus linguistic methodology with the theory of lexical priming. Thus, the volume is an essential reader for students and researchers in corpus linguistics, metaphor studies, lexicography, semantics, and pragmatics.