Joint Seminar l Source Domain Verification for Conceptual Metaphor Analysis
Seminars / Lectures / Workshops
RCPCE Events
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Date
21 Apr 2020
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Organiser
Department of English
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Time
17:00 - 18:00
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Venue
Zoom
Speaker
Prof. Kathleen Ahrens
Remarks
This event is jointly organized by the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English, PolyU.
Summary
In this talk, I provide a corpus-based approach to source domain verification in conceptual metaphor analysis. I adopt an empirical method extended from previous research that used corpus-based linguistic tools and present a new, step-by-step procedure to verify which keywords may be categorized in the source domain of BUILDING, using data from the Corpus of Hong Kong Political Speeches. Following the verification of a number of keywords in the building source domain, I discuss how this method may be adapted for other source domains and languages as well as the limitations of this approach.
Keynote Speaker
Kathleen Ahrens is a Professor in the Department of English and the Director of the Research Centre for Professional Communication in English at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is Chair of the Executive Board for the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (’18-’22), former President of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities (’18-’19), and a member of the International Advisory Board for the Metaphor Lab Amsterdam. She is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Pragmatics, and Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Pragmatics. She takes an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of metaphor, running behavioural crowd-sourcing, neuro-imaging, and reaction times studies, as well as analysing metaphor use through corpus-based and ontological-based approaches.
