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Mapping Metaphors in English

Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus. Mapping Metaphors in English. Wendy Anderson and Ellen Bramwell, University of Glasgow. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus. AHRC-funded, Jan 2012-Dec 2014

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Mapping Metaphors in English

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  1. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus Mapping Metaphors in English Wendy Anderson and Ellen Bramwell, University of Glasgow

  2. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus AHRC-funded, Jan 2012-Dec 2014 Principal Investigator: Wendy Anderson Research Assistant: Ellen Bramwell PhD student: Rachael Hamilton Technician: Flora Edmonds SCS Digital Humanities Research Officer: Brian Aitken Co-Investigators: Marc Alexander, Carole Hough, Christian Kay Project assistants: Fraser Dallachy, Iain Edmonds, Johanna Green, George Hardwick, Daria Izdebska, Ross McLachlan, Cerwyss O’Hare, Judith Paterson, Beth Ralston, Heather Valentine Several student volunteers

  3. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus • Role of metaphor in constructing understanding of the world • e.g. Ideas are children - words from domain of Children/Kinship (‘Source’) are used to talk about Ideas (‘Target’): my brainchild, nurture an idea, that project’s my baby • Conventionalised metaphor as recorded in the language system / lexis of English • Comprehensive identification of systematic metaphor in English (OE to present)

  4. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus Historical Thesaurus of English Initiated by Professor Michael Samuels Published as: Christian Kay, Jane Roberts, Michael Samuels and Irené Wotherspoon (eds). 2009. Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: OUP

  5. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus Historical Thesaurus database • Large - 797,120 meanings • Historical, with date information for all senses • Semantic organisation • Electronic

  6. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus Methods • Grouped HT data into 411 semantically-coherent categories

  7. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus Methods A01 World, the A02 Region of the earth A03 Geodetic references A04 Land : : I08 Love I09 Hatred/enmity I10 Indifference : : Z07 Performance arts Z08 Sport Z09 Sport, types of Z10 Dance The External World The Mental World The Social World

  8. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus Methods • Grouped HT data into 411 semantically-coherent categories • A database query compares the set of lexical items in each category with that in every other category

  9. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus Methods • Grouped HT data into 411 semantically-coherent categories • A database query compares the set of lexical items in each category with that in every other category • Where there is lexical overlap, there may also be metaphor

  10. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus Methods • Grouped HT data into 411 semantically-coherent categories • A database query compares the set of lexical items in each category with that in every other category • Where there is lexical overlap, there may also be metaphor • We analyse all of the lexical overlap, manually...

  11. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus Imagination Biological processes pregnant/pregnancy, conception, conceive, reproduce, spawn, seminal, father, fertility, birth Kinsman/relation father, mother, conception, birth, spawn Ideas are children

  12. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus Imagination Atmosphere, weather vapour, vaporous, Scotch mist, cloudland Gas fume, vapour, vaporous Air waft, inspiration, airy, aerial Ideas are vapour/air

  13. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus Next steps – the Metaphor Map

  14. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus Next steps – the Metaphor Map

  15. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus Next steps – the Metaphor Map

  16. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus How can we work together? Libraries Society Creative writing First World War Advertising Sport Galleries Museums Marketing Science Education Commonwealth Games

  17. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus www.glasgow.ac.uk/metaphor http://blogs.arts.gla.ac.uk/metaphor/ Twitter: @MappingMetaphor Thank you! Image from Thomas Wright: An original theory or new hypothesis of the universe. London, 1750. Courtesy of University of Glasgow Library, Special Collections.

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