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Mapping Metaphors in English
Wendy Anderson and Ellen Bramwell, University of Glasgow
Mapping Metaphor
with the Historical Thesaurus
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Mapping Metaphor
with the Historical ThesaurusMapping Metaphor with the Historical
Thesaurus
AHRC-funded, Jan 2012-Dec 2014
Principal Investigator: Wendy Anderson
Research Assistant: Ellen Bramwell
PhD student: Rachael Hamilton
Technician: Flora Edmonds
SCS Digital Humanities Research Officer: Brian Aitken
Co-Investigators: Marc Alexander, Carole Hough, Christian Kay
Project assistants: Fraser Dallachy, Iain Edmonds, Johanna Green, George Hardwick, Daria Izdebska, Ross McLachlan, Cerwyss O’Hare, Judith Paterson, Beth Ralston, Heather Valentine
Several student volunteers2
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• Role of metaphor in constructing understanding of the world• e.g. IDEAS ARE CHILDREN - words from domain
of Children/Kinship (‘Source’) are used to talk about Ideas (‘Target’): my brainchild, nurture an idea, that project’s my baby
• Conventionalised metaphor as recorded in the language system / lexis of English
• Comprehensive identification of systematic metaphor in English (OE to present)
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Mapping Metaphor
with the Historical ThesaurusHistorical Thesaurus of English
Initiated by Professor Michael Samuels
Published as:
Christian Kay, Jane Roberts, Michael Samuels and Irené Wotherspoon (eds). 2009. Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: OUP
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Historical Thesaurus database
• Large - 797,120 meanings• Historical, with date information for all
senses• Semantic organisation• Electronic
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Mapping Metaphor
with the Historical ThesaurusMethods
- Grouped HT data into 411 semantically-coherent categories
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Mapping Metaphor
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A01 World, theA02 Region of the earthA03 Geodetic referencesA04 Land: :I08 LoveI09 Hatred/enmityI10 Indifference: :Z07 Performance artsZ08 SportZ09 Sport, types ofZ10 Dance
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The External World
The Mental World
The Social World
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Mapping Metaphor
with the Historical ThesaurusMethods
- Grouped HT data into 411 semantically-coherent categories
- A database query compares the set of lexical items in each category with that in every other category
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Mapping Metaphor
with the Historical ThesaurusMethods
- Grouped HT data into 411 semantically-coherent categories
- A database query compares the set of lexical items in each category with that in every other category
- Where there is lexical overlap, there may also be metaphor
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Mapping Metaphor
with the Historical ThesaurusMethods
- Grouped HT data into 411 semantically-coherent categories
- A database query compares the set of lexical items in each category with that in every other category
- Where there is lexical overlap, there may also be metaphor
- We analyse all of the lexical overlap, manually...
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Mapping Metaphor
with the Historical ThesaurusImagination
Biological processespregnant/pregnancy, conception, conceive,
reproduce, spawn, seminal, father, fertility, birth
Kinsman/relationfather, mother, conception, birth, spawn
Ideas are children
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Mapping Metaphor
with the Historical ThesaurusImagination
Atmosphere, weathervapour, vaporous, Scotch mist, cloudland
Gasfume, vapour, vaporous
Airwaft, inspiration, airy, aerial
Ideas are vapour/air
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Mapping Metaphor
with the Historical ThesaurusNext steps – the Metaphor Map
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Mapping Metaphor
with the Historical ThesaurusNext steps – the Metaphor Map
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Mapping Metaphor
with the Historical ThesaurusNext steps – the Metaphor Map
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Mapping Metaphor
with the Historical ThesaurusHow can we work together?
Science
First World WarCreative writing
Museums
Education
Galleries
Libraries
Advertising
Marketing
Sport
Commonwealth Games
Society
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www.glasgow.ac.uk/metaphorhttp://blogs.arts.gla.ac.uk/metaphor/ Twitter:
@MappingMetaphor
Mapping Metaphor
with the Historical Thesaurus
Image from Thomas Wright: An original theory or new hypothesis of the universe. London, 1750. Courtesy of University of Glasgow Library, Special Collections.
Thank you!