Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics

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Actions Speak Louder than Words: How Figurative Language and Gesturing in Entrepreneurial Pitches Influences Investment Judgments (2019, background): “1 Following conventions from corpus linguistics (Deignan, 2005), frequency is calculated as a percentage for each transcribed text and its total length.”
DMIP: A Method for Identifying Potentially Deliberate Metaphor in Language Use (2018, background): “…as a Lingua Franca (e.g., MacArthur 2016; Nacey 2013), (discourse) dynamic approaches to metaphor (e.g., Cameron 1999, 2003; Müller 2008), corpus linguistics (e.g., Deignan 2005; Goatly 1997) and discourse analysis (e.g., Charteris-Black and Musolff 2003; Semino 2008; Steen 2008, 2011b, 2015).”
Descriptions of Pain, Metaphor, and Embodied Simulation (2010, background): “…(2005) for establishing the distinction between conventional or novel metaphorical uses of words on the basis of corpus evidence: Deignan suggests that ‘any sense of a word that is found less than once in every thousand citations can be considered either innovative or rare’ (Deignan, 2005, p. 40).”