MIP: A method for identifying metaphorically used words in discourse

By Gerard Steen, Lynne Cameron, Alan Cienki, P. Crisp, Alice Deignan, Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., J. Grady, Z. Kövecses, G. Low, Elena Semino. 2007

1,752 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b43980028c1acb02e12d85a45450025193b95ce5

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

In Language and Linguistics

In Literature and Literary Theory

Citations in the corpus

Actions Speak Louder than Words: How Figurative Language and Gesturing in Entrepreneurial Pitches Influences Investment Judgments (2019, neutral): “Pragglejaz Group 2007.”
DMIP: A Method for Identifying Potentially Deliberate Metaphor in Language Use (2018, methodology): “In the extract, the author of the book describes a Cystosoma (a kind of shrimp), which has: (6) enormously expanded eyes, looking likeMFlag headlampsMRW (VUAMC-AMM-02) 10 In some cases, more than one sense description can be considered a candidate for the basic meaning, for instance because one desc”
The Paradox of Metaphor: Why We Need a Three-Dimensional Model of Metaphor (2008, background): “As has been shown by the Pragglejaz Group (2007) , if metaphor identification in language is approached with the appropriate set of assumptions and tools, it yields results that are reliable as well as valid for contemporary metaphor research.”
Shattering the Bell Jar: Metaphor, Gender, and Depression (2012, neutral): “( Penman, 2001 ) ”
Metaphor in Organizational Research: Context, Modalities and Implications for Research — Introduction (2008, methodology): “Pragglejaz Group 2007 ‘MIP: A method for identifying metaphorically used words in discourse’.”
Descriptions of Pain, Metaphor, and Embodied Simulation (2010, methodology): “(BNC, 2007, file A0L) On the basis of the metaphor identification procedure proposed in Pragglejaz Group (2007), extract (1) can be described as involving the most basic meaning of the adjective sharp: a physical property of solid objects that have a very thin edge or a pointed end.”