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Diachronic Data Analysis Supports and Refines Conceptual Metaphor Theory

Computation and Language 2023-09-18 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

As a contribution to metaphor analysis, we introduce a statistical, data-based investigation with empirical analysis of long-standing conjectures and a first-ever empirical exploration of the systematic features of metaphors. Conversely, this also makes metaphor theory available as a basis of meaning emergence that can be quantitatively explored and integrated into the framework of NLP.

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@article{arxiv.2209.12234,
  title  = {Diachronic Data Analysis Supports and Refines Conceptual Metaphor Theory},
  author = {Marie Teich and Wilmer Leal and Juergen Jost},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.12234},
  year   = {2023}
}

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25 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables