The papers in this volume deal with the issue of how corpus data relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have typically investigated with respect to conceptual mappings. The authors in this volume investigate a wide range of issues - the coherence and function of particular metaphorical models, the interaction of form and meaning, the identification of source domains of metaphorical expressions, the relationship between metaphor and discourse, the priming of metaphors, and the historical development of metaphors.

The studies deal with a variety of metaphorical and metonymic source and target domains, including the source domains SPACE, ANIMALS, BODY PARTS, ORGANIZATIONS and WAR, and the target domains VERBAL ACTIVITY, ECONOMY, EMOTIONS and POLITICS. In their studies, the authors present a variety of corpus-linguistic methods for the investigation of conceptual mappings, for example, corpora annotated for semantic categories, concordances of individual source-domain items and patterns, and concordances of target-domain items.

In sum, the papers in this volume show how a wide range of corpus-linguistic methods can be used to investigate a variety of issues in cognitive linguistics; the combination of corpus methods with a cognitive-linguistic view of metaphor and metonymy yields new answers to old questions (and to new questions) about the relationship between language as a conceptual phenomenon and language as a textual phenomenon.

Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy Anatol Stefanowitsch

Metaphoricity is gradable Patrick Hanks

A corpus-based study of metaphors for speech activity in British English Elena Semino

Words and their metaphors: A corpus-based approach Anatol Stefanowitsch The grammar of linguistic metaphors Alice Deignan

Keeping and eye on the data: Metonymies and their patterns Martin Hilpert

Metonymic proper names: A corpus-based account Katja Markert and Malvina Nissim

On groutnolls and nog-heads: A case study of the interaction between culture and cognition in intelligence metaphors Kathryn Allan

Sense and sensibility: Rational thought versus emotion in metaphorical language Päivi-Koivisto-Alanko and Heli Tissari

A corpus-based analysis of context effects on metaphor comprehension James H. Martin

Of critical importance: Using electronic text corpora to study metaphor in business media discourse Veronika Koller

Metaphors, motifs and similes across discourse types: Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) at work Alan Partington