Journal article
Similarity is closeness: Using distributional semantic spaces to model similarity in visual and linguistic metaphors
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The semantic similarity that characterizes two terms aligned in a metaphor is here analysed through a corpus-based distributional semantic space. We compare and contrast two samples of metaphors, representative of visual and linguistic modality of expressions respectively. Popular theories of metaphor claim that metaphors transcend their modality to influence conceptual structures, thus suggesting that different modalities of expression would typically express the same conceptual metaphors. H...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ European Union
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Grant:
Marie Curie Intra European
Fellowship, awarded to Dr. MB (COGVIM no. 629076 – Project
Acronym: COGVIM
Call identifier FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- De Gruyter Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Journal website
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 101–137
- Publication date:
- 2017-02-24
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-11-15
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1613-7035
- ISSN:
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1613-7027
- Source identifiers:
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738044
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- pubs:738044
- Deposit date:
- 2017-10-21
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- Copyright holder:
- De Gruyter Mouton
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2017 by De Gruyter Mouton.
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