Collocation lists as instruments for metaphor detection in corpora Listas de colocações como instrumentos para detecção de metáforas em corpora

This paper reports a study on the use of collocation lists as instruments for detecting metaphors in corpora. A collocation list contains the collocations for selected words in corpora together with concordances for those words. As corpora become more available to metaphor researchers, there is a gr...

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Main Author: Tony Berber Sardinha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2006-01-01
Series:DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502006000200002