This study proposes an operational approach to a metaphorical framing analysis using large-scale data. We conducted case of how war metaphors are framed address various societal issues in corpus public speeches by Hong Kong government officials. By investigating patterns lexical choices under the source domain WAR and underlying reasons for source-target mappings (i.e. Mapping Principles), we f...

This paper describes a graph method for labeling word senses and identifying lexical sentiment potential by integrating the corpus-based syntactic-semantic dependency layer, semantic dictionaries. The method, implemented as ConGraCNet application on different languages corpora, projects function onto particular syntactical layer constructs seed lexeme with collocates of high conceptual similari...

The concept of ‘snowclones’ has gained interest in recent research on linguistic creativity and studies extravagance expressiveness language. However, no clear criteria for identifying snowclones have yet been established, detailed corpus-based investigations the phenomenon are still lacking. This paper addresses this gap a twofold way. On one hand, we develop an operational definition snowclon...