Exposing Deep-rooted Anger: A Metaphor Pattern Analysis of Mixed Anger Metaphors
Description:
This project seeks to serve two purposes: first, to investigate various semantic and grammatical aspects of mixed conceptual metaphors in reference to anger; and secondly, to explore the potential of a corpus-based, TARGET DOMAIN-oriented method termed metaphor pattern analysis to the study of mixed metaphor. This research shows that mixed metaphors do not pattern in a manner consistent with statements made within conceptual metaphor theory. These metaphors prove highly dynamic in their combin…
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Date:
August 2011
Creator:
Barron, Andrew T.
Partner:
UNT Libraries