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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2011-07-01
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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 |