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Group publication title:

Token

Contributor:

Newman, John G. Ed. ; Dossena, Marina. Ed. ; Schmied, Josef. Guest ed. ; Bondi, Marina. Guest ed. ; Dontcheva-Navratilova, Olga. Guest ed. ; Perez-Llantada, Carmen. Guest ed.

Abstract:

This paper investigates the metaphorical conceptualisation of the two basic emotions of happiness and sadness in the private correspondence of eighteenth- and nineteenthcentury men and women of letters. Grounded in the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, it exploits metaphorical pattern analysis (MPA) and the metaphor identification procedure (MIP) in a corpus-based analysis of Late Modern English letters. The aim is to identify metaphorical expressions in the corpus and illustrate the conceptual mappings involved. First, a set of lexical items belonging to the two target domains under investigation was retrieved and subsequently used for concordance analysis. Secondly, a sample of metaphorical expressions was examined and mapped according to the metaphorical mappings described in the literature. Additional mappings are proposed for the conceptualisations identified in the analysed sample. Findings confirm the effectiveness of MPA in the identification of metaphors in corpus-based investigations and offer insights into the use of metaphor in Late Modern English educated, nonliterary discourse.

Table of contents:

Contents
7 Josef Schmied, Marina Bondi, Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova, Carmen Pérez-Llantada, Language variation and change in academic writing: Recent trends through globalisation and digitalisation
25 Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova, Academic writing conventions in Czech English-medium linguistics journals: Continuity and change over the last 30 years
55 Marina Bondi, Jessica Jane Nocella, Academic writing conventions in English-medium linguistics journals in Italy: Continuity and change over the last 30 years
89 Marina Ivanova, German English-medium linguistics journal abstracts over the last 30 years: Quantitative and qualitative structural developments
115 Giuliana Diani, Research article abstracts in English and Italian: Generic and cross-linguistic variation over the last 20 years
143 Krystyna Warchał, Concluding sections over 30 years of research writing: The case of a Polish scholar
169 Josef Schmied, Marina Ivanova, English MA theses at a German university before and after the Bologna reform: Comparing global rhetorical structures and stance in Linguistics and Cultural Studies
197 Tereza Guziurová, “The aim of this paper is…”: Frame markers in English as a lingua franca of academic writing
223 Enrique Lafuente Millán, European research project websites and corporate websites: Patterns of evaluation and genre evolution Varia
251 Cecilia Lazzeretti, Language, narrative and structure of story telling in museum communication: A diachronic approach
277 Gloria Mambelli, “It is a long road from sorrow to joy”: Metaphors of happiness and sadness in Late Modern English private correspondence
301 Giulia Rovelli, Towards a historical corpus of Canadian English letters and diaries
325 Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Acquiring epistolary literacy in nineteenth-century New England Reviews
357 Michael Skiba, Participial Prepositions and Conjunctions in the History of English, Munich: utzverlag, 2021, 235 pp. (Reviewed by Rafał Molencki, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)

Place of publishing:

Kielce

Physical description:

s. 277-300

ISSN:

2299-5900

Publisher:

Jan Kochanowski University Press

Date issued:

2023

Identifier:

doi:10.25951/11267

Language:

angielski

Is part of:

vol. 16

Type:

tekst

Format:

application/pdf