Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale-the computer-aided
analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook …

Objective To compare the frequencies with which patients with cancer and health
professionals use Violence and Journey metaphors when writing online; and to investigate …

A hierarchical model of human societies' relations with the natural world is at the root of
today's climate crisis; Narrating the Mesh contends that narrative form is instrumental in …

This paper explores keywords, key part-of-speech categories and key semantic categories
and their role in text analysis. The first part of the paper addresses a set of issues relating to …

Metaphor research has witnessed tremendous changes in how metaphor is seen and
understood. Traditionally, metaphor has been viewed as a special, creative, and noticeable …

This study combines quantitative semi-automated corpus methods with manual qualitative
analysis to investigate the use of Violence metaphors for cancer and end of life in a …

Research on metaphor increasingly exploits, in a variety of ways and for a variety of
purposes, the computer-aided methods developed within Corpus Linguistics. In this chapter …

This research was sponsored by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
(NWO)–'Vici'grant 277-30-001 “Metaphor in discourse: Linguistic forms, conceptual …

This chapter reviews contributions of corpus-based research to readers' understanding of
the discourse of advertising. It begins with a brief overview of some of the major …

As shown throughout this volume, metaphors are regularly used to talk and think about
experiences that are subjective, complex and sensitive in terms of experiences that are less …