A PROGRAM FOR FINDING METAPHOR CANDIDATES IN CORPORA

In this paper, I present a computer program (‘Identifi cador de Metáforas’) for finding metaphor candidates (i.e., words that are likely to have been used metaphorically) in corpora. It works by matching each word in the corpus to five databases that contain several kinds of information about lexis...

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Main Author: Tony Berber Sardinha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2011-07-01
Series:The ESPecialist: Research in Language for Specific Purposes
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Online Access:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/6239